48 Life-histories of Northern Animals 



The present numbers may be thus estimated:" 



Yellowstone Park 20,000 



Wyoming, outside the Park 5,000 



Manitoba 5,000 



Idaho 5,000 



Montana 4,000 



Vancouver Island 2,000 



Washington 1,500 



Alberta 1,000 



Saskatchewan 500 



Oregon 200 



California 200 



British Columbia 200 



Minnesota 50 



In various Zoos, Parks, etc 1,000 



Total in 1907 45,650 



During the past ten years the number in Wyoming has 

 decreased. On the other hand, in all regions where ade- 

 quate protection has been accorded the number has in- 

 creased; and there can be no doubt that, with a system of 

 permanent safe havens, proper limitation of bags, and an 

 absolute prohibition of repeating rifles and of the sale of game, 

 we may keep these fine animals with us as long as we have 

 wild land for them to range on — that is, forever. 



SIGNS As is usually the case with big game, one may be in a 



land abounding with Wapiti and see nothing of them for 

 long, but the hunter cannot fail to see, on every hand, the 

 little telltale "signs." 



During my hunting trip in the Shoshones, in October, 

 1898, I saw many Wapiti, or Elk, as they are there called, 

 and got none at all. But I got what I went for — a lot of 



^* In making this I have been assisted by Stanley H. Hopper, C. Phillipps-Wolley, 

 W. T. Homaday, E. W. Darbey, George B. Grinnell, General S. B. M. Young, and the 

 United States Biological Survey. 



