The Boone and Crockett Club 



law. This Park the country owes to the Boone 

 and Crockett Club, whose members discovered the 

 region, suggested its being set aside, caused the 

 bill to be introduced in Congress and awakened 

 interest in it all over the country. 



VIII. 



CANADA'S ROCKY MOUNTAIN RESERVATIONS. 



The setting aside of the Glacier National Park 

 in Montana, just south of the Boundary Line, calls 

 renewed attention to the quiet work done in 

 Canada within the past few years in establishing 

 parks and reservations which shall protect the 

 natural resources of that broad region. In 1895 

 the Waterton Lakes Forest Park, situated on the 

 International Boundary Line, about thirty miles 

 southwest of Cardston, Alberta, and adjoining the 

 Glacier National Park, was set aside by order 

 in Council. Subsequently it was included as one 

 of the Forest Reserves in the Forest Reserve Act 

 of 1906, and later it was decided to administer it 

 as one of the series of Dominion Parks. The 

 regulations under which it is administered provide 

 for the protection of game, and limit the fishing 



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