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F. Bradshaw, the chief game warden, to be increasing in 
the closed territory south of township 34. Very few sports- 
men are said to hunt deer in Saskatchewan while moose and 
wapiti are available. Four hundred and seventy-eight deer 
were killed in 1916. 
In Alberta the following figures indicate the extent to 
which deer have been killed under license since 1907: 
1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 
59 125 299 540 619 768 908 1388 692 560 705 828 
But these figures do not represent the actual numbers 
killed, as no returns are available north of the fifty-fifth 
parallel. 
The mule deer is found in the valley of the Peace River. 
Preble states: 
In the summer of 1895, J. Alden Loring reported seeing a doe of this 
species at Jasper House; and he observed many tracks in the vicinity 
of Henry House. In July, 1896, he saw fresh tracks along the stream in 
the valley 15 miles south of Henry House. He reported the species rare 
between Jasper House and Smoky River, but saw tracks on the Grand 
Cache River and the north bank of the Smoky River in the early autumn; 
and saw tracks of two bands in the mountains west of Henry House 
about the middle of October. J. T. Edmonton assured me that during 
the fall of 1897 a few black-tailed deer frequented the vicinity of Stony 
Rapid, on the Athabaska, about 200 miles (by the river) below Athabaska 
Landing. 
In the Rocky Mountains Park, mule deer are increasing 
in numbers, and may be seen almost any day in the vicinity 
of most of the public roads and trails. They are also in- 
creasing in abundance in the Waterton Lakes Park. 
The provincial game warden for British Columbia, in his 
report for 1916, states that: ‘‘Last winter severe weather 
caused a great mortality amongst deer of all species, es- 
pecially in some of the coast inlets; and in parts of the in- 
terior the mule deer were also terribly harassed by coyotes. 
