238 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
Counted fifty-two mountain sheep on top of Cuthead Mountain. 
Saw seventy-one sheep and twelve deer near Massive. 
Found sheep in large numbers in unusually fine condition for the time 
of the year. 
Saw big bunch of sheep near the Three Sisters. 
All wild animals are increasing. Black bears occasionally 
become a nuisance on account of their visits to the garbage- 
cans of the summer residences, and during the winter the 
deer overcome their natural shyness and may be seen con- 
stantly in the streets of Banff. Excellent natural paddocks 
have been constructed near Banff, in which buffalo, wapiti, 
mountain sheep, goat, and deer are confined for the benefit 
of those who are unable to track these animals in their 
natural range in the park. These paddocks at the present 
time* contain 8 buffalo, 10 moose, 27 wapiti, 19 Rocky 
Mountain sheep, and 6 Rocky Mountain goats. It is pro- 
posed to release a number of the wapiti from their commodi- 
ous paddock in order that they may repopulate what for- 
merly constituted the natural range of the wapiti. This 
area, together with Jasper and Waterton Lakes Parks, 
will serve as unrivalled breeding-ground for the big-game 
animals of the Rocky Mountains region, and the surplus 
wild-life population will afford a constant supply of big- 
game and fur-bearing animals for the adjacent unprotected 
regions. This is one of the great advantages of such natural 
reserves. 
Waterton Lakes Park.—This is the third and most south- 
erly of the Dominion Parks in the Rocky Mountain region 
of Alberta. It now includes an area of 423 square miles in 
the southwestern corner of the province, where it is con- 
tiguous to the Glacier National Park, which was created by 
the United States Government, the whole reserved area 
forming a magnificent scenic and wild-life reservation. It 
is a region of impressive mountains and lakes, with deeply 
* June, 1919. 
