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Bradshaw, the chief game warden, to be increasing in 

 the closed territory south of township 34. Very few sports- 

 men are said to hunt deer in Saskatchewan while moose and 

 wapiti are available. Four hundred and seventy-eight deer 

 were killed in 1916. 



In Alberta the following figures indicate the extent to 



ich deer have been killed imder license since 1907: 



w 



7 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 

 Q 125 299 540 619 768 908 1388 692 560 705 828 



But these figures do not represent the actual numbers 

 killed, as no returns are available north of the fifty-fifth 

 parallel. 



The mule deer is found in the valley of the Peace River. 



reble states: 



' In the summer of 1895, J. Alden Loring reported seeing a doe of this 

 scies at Jasper House; and he observed many tracks in the vicinity 

 Henry House. In July, 1896, he saw fresh tracks along the stream in 



le valley 15 miles south of Henry House. He reported the species rare 

 between Jasper House and Smoky River, but saw tracks on the Grand 

 Cache River and the north bank of the Smoky River in the early autumn; 

 and saw tracks of two bands in the mountains west of Henry House 

 about the middle of October. J. T. Edmonton assured me that during 

 the fall of 1897 a few black-tailed deer frequented the vicinity of Stony 

 Rapid, on the Athabaska, about 200 miles (by the river) below Athabaska 

 Landing. 



In the Rocky Mountains Park, mule deer are increasing 

 in numbers, and may be seen almost any day in the vicinity 

 of most of the public roads and trails. They are also in- 

 creasing in abundance in the Waterton Lakes Park. 



The provincial game warden for British Columbia, in his 

 report for 1916, states that: "Last winter severe weather 

 caused a great mortality amongst deer of all species, es- 

 pecially in some of the coast inlets; and in parts of the in- 

 terior the mule deer were also terribly harassed by coyotes. 



