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carved valleys. The names of certain of these mountains, 
such as Sheep and Black Bear Mountains, testify as to the 
fauna within the park. Rocky Mountain sheep, and black 
and grizzly bear, are comparatively plentiful, and both 
black- and white-tailed deer abound and are increasing. 
The following extracts from the diaries of the wardens, 
early in 1919, furnish evidence of the increase that is taking 
place in this park as a result of protection: 
Saw between eighty and one hundred deer near Horseshoe basin. 
Two hundred deer were within a mile of Cabin all through bad weather. 
Saw seventy-five deer about two miles up Pass Creek. 
While going up Pass Creek I saw seventy goats, about sixty sheep, 
and between fifty and sixty deer. I also saw ten or twelve deer at the 
Superintendent’s office; was within two or three rods of them; they are 
quite tame. 
The acting superintendent observes in April, 1919: 
It is noted that elk are making their appearance in this district, and 
Warden Simpson also tells me he has observed moose tracks in here. 
Elk Island Park.—About three miles from Lamont, Al- 
berta, on the main line of the Canadian Northern Railway, 
a small reservation known as Elk Island Park has been 
established for the preservation, originally, of the wapiti or 
_ elk—but now other members of our wild life are included. 
The area is mostly wooded, the woods in the north end of 
the park being very thick, and suitable for moose and deer; 
in the southern section it is more rolling, less brushy, and 
suitable for buffalo. It contains Island Lake, a beautiful 
sheet of water about 1,040 acres in extent, and studded 
with fourteen wooded islands, on one of which a colony of 
cranes nest. The present estimated population (1919) of 
the larger animals in this park is as follows: 
PWNERIO Ete og Aw ees 195 AGS Sg aia A a rand ae eer Ale 106 
Lhe NEES PS oS es ee 57 1 ESET Vee eR ane A a 111 
