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ged, their glacier stubs gleaming white in the 

 sunlight, and the atmosphere bore the perfume 

 of the pine and fir forest spreading far away in 

 every direction. 



This is a magnificent game cover and refuge. 

 It is the sanctuary of Wyoming's moose, num- 

 bering now about four hundred. While any 

 considerable number of elk would starve here 

 in the winter, it is an ideal winter as well as 

 summer range for moose and deer, both of 

 which are browsing animals, while the elk nor- 

 mally is not. In connection with Yellowstone 

 Park it offers a wide area of protection to bear, 

 fur-bearing animals, and game birds. 



This moose herd has been built up from an 

 insignificant beginning to its present propor- 

 tions during the past ten years. The close sea- 

 son will end in Wyoming in 191 2, unless it is 

 extended, and it is hardly to be supposed that 

 the legislature will do otherwise than extend it, 

 for one year's hunting would put a setback upon 

 the moose that would spoil the work of those 

 ten years. 



There is some poaching on the refuge, but 

 not a great deal. Two weeks before I passed 

 through it, an army wagon was overturned on a 

 rough bit of road. A mounted lieutenant, with 

 two soldiers, escorted the wagon. A forest 



