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off for several minutes, while photographs were taken of it. 
This incident would appear to indicate that the animals 
are not being molested by Indians or other hunters. On 
the same salt lick there were seen tracks of animals of all 
ages, and many of these were the tracks of yearlings and 
calves, indicating that there is an increase taking place in 
the numbers of the herd. Some of the tracks were those of 
very large animals. 
The general opinion appears to be that the Indians are 
now observing the law prohibiting the killing of the buffalo, 
and except perhaps in cases of necessity, where an Indian 
family is out of food, no buffalo have been killed, at least in 
recent years. 
Timber wolves would appear to be the only natural 
enemy of the buffalo, and in the various traverses made 
into the southern range ten or twelve old and new tracks 
of these animals were seen at various points. 
The other wild life found on the buffalo range consists 
of moose, woodland caribou, black bear, lynx, fox, beaver, 
marten, mink, otter, fisher, wolverene, coyote, and musk- 
rat. In the spring and fall ducks and geese are found. 
Spruce partridge, willow grouse, and sharp-tailed grouse 
occur all the year round and ptarmigan in the winter. 
From all the evidence he collected and from his observa- 
- tions when in the buffalo territory, Mr. Camsell has no 
hesitation in saying that the buffalo are not only holding 
their own, but are increasing. If, therefore, a portion of 
their range could be made a national park, there is no 
reason why the wood bison should not only be saved from 
extermination, but there is every reason to believe that the 
surplus would migrate into the adjacent territory, which is 
unsuited to agriculture and therefore could be justifiably 
devoted to the preservation of the only examples of our 
largest and noblest native mammal now living in its original 
wild state. 
