The Boone and Crockett Club 



in respect to manner of capture, quantity, size and 

 season. 



The Canadian Government has also* reserved 

 from sale and settlement, in the interest of the 

 conservation of forests, and the protection of the 

 water supply, the rougher forested portions of the 

 eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. This 

 reservation comprises approximately 14,400 square 

 miles. It begins at the International Boundary and 

 runs about 410 miles in a northwesterly direction, 

 following the crest of the main range of the Rocky 

 Mountains, which forms the boundary between 

 the Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia 

 to the intersection of that line with the i2Oth 

 meridian. The strip of land is irregular in width, 

 from ten to thirty miles wide up to the 5ist par- 

 allel, thence widening to a width of from thirty to 

 fifty miles up to the 54th parallel, where it tapers 

 to the izoth meridian. 



In the tract described are situated the Waterton 

 Lakes Park, the Rocky Mountains Park, with an 

 area of 4500 square miles, and the Jaspar Forest 

 Park with an area of 5000 square miles. In these 

 parks, hunting and shooting are forbidden, but 

 fishing may be done under adequate regulation. 

 These parks, therefore, are game refuges, in which 

 for all times those animals indigenous to them 



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