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JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — The National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming has ended its supplemental feeding of elk earlier than usual because of the recent warm weather melting the snow cover.
Refuge biologist Eric Cole says feeding usually goes until the close of the first week of April.
Cole tells the Jackson Hole News & Guide (http://bit.ly/2mtZy13 ) that March 20 is the earliest feeding end date in the past 20 years. This year, the feeding was cut off on Thursday, March 23.
Cole says snow-free areas adjacent to the refuge's four feedgrounds have grown steadily in size.
The end of feeding means some 500 bison and nearly 9,000 elk will soon set off for their migration to points north, east and west.
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