PROTECTION OF GAME AND WILD LIFE 263 
is administered by the Commissioner of the Yukon. Its 
enforcement is largely in the hands of the members of the 
Royal Northwest Mounted Police,* who are ex officio game 
wardens. The close seasons may be changed by a resolu- 
tion of the Territorial Council. 
The ordinance prohibits the use of poison. In order to 
prevent waste of meat a heavy penalty is provided should 
anyone, killing game, fail to use the meat personally for 
food, or cause it to be used for food, or to be sold within 
the territory for that purpose. Traders who purchase meat 
of game animals are required to keep full data regarding 
their purchases. 
Owing to the great difficulty of taking supplies into cer- 
tain sections of the territory, the Commissioner may set 
aside any portion of it from the operation of the ordinance 
for such period of time as he may deem desirable, in order 
to provide sustenance for isolated camps, and when any 
locality is so set aside the Commissioner may license one or 
more hunters to hunt for such district under certain re- 
strictions. One of the chief reasons for the disappearance 
of game from many regions has been the fact that mining 
and other camps have subsisted wholly, or almost wholly, 
on the game in the surrounding district. This policy has 
been carried out in regions where the bringing in of other 
supplies is possible. The power of suspending the opera- 
tion of the game law in exceptional cases is one that should 
be exercised with the greatest caution, and its abuse should 
be safeguarded by every possible means. 
The killing of game by Indians in the Yukon, particularly 
moose, for the purposes of sale to traders, is a practice that 
should be suppressed immediately. It is unwarranted; it 
incites a class of men, all too eager to kill everything in 
sight, to kill to the limit; and its continuance will abso- 
lutely deplete the supply of moose and other game animals. 
* Now the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. 
