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Life-histories of Northern Animals 



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their southward trek, he is with them still, but now is indif- 

 ferent to the presence of other bulls. 



The great service rendered to man by the Reindeer of 

 Lapland is well known, and the realization that we had in 

 America a Lapland of our own, led long ago to a plan for es- 

 tablishing the Caribou as 

 a range animal in Alaska. 

 Naturally enough, the first 

 idea was to domesticate 

 the native species. But the 

 Reverend Sheldon Jack- 

 son, Senator H. M. Teller, 

 and the Hon. A. C. Dur- 

 borrow, who took the 

 land, 

 practi- 

 cal, in that they availed 

 themselves of the long do- 

 mestication of the Rein- 

 ^^p^ deer in Europe, and im- 

 "■ ported their stock from 

 Norway and Lapland. 

 These have prospered and 

 multiplied.^' 



There are now several 

 thousand of them domesticated in Alaska. The project is an 

 assured success, and the time is in sight when the great north- 

 land will support a population of Reindeer and supply Rein- 

 deer staples in exchange for those of the south. 



A similar scheme is now being successfully furthered in 

 Labrador by Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell. 



A l/j ^ / whole problem in he 

 'J .^, A^ were more wisely pn 



Sketches of Norway Reindeer. 



The Reindeer has always been an important animal to 

 our race. The dawn of human history is known as "The 

 Reindeer Age," because, at that time, the Reindeer was the 



'° Rep. Intro. Domestic Reindeer, Alaska. S. Jackson, U. S. Senate, 1896. 



