238 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 



Counted fifty-two mountain sheep on top of Cuthead Mountain. 

 Saw seventy-one sheep and twelve deer near Massive. 

 Found sheep in large numbers in unusually fine condition for the time 

 of the year. 

 Saw big bunch of sheep near the Three Sisters. 



All wild animals ar6 increasing. Black bears occasionally 

 become a nuisance on account of their visits to the garbage- 

 cans of the summer residences, and during the winter the 

 deer overcome their natural shyness and may be seen con- 

 stantly in the streets of Banff. Excellent natural paddocks 

 have been constructed near Banff, in which buffalo, wapiti, 

 mountain sheep, goat, and deer are confined for the benefit 

 of those who are unable to track these animals in their 

 natural range in the park. These paddocks at the present 

 time* contain 8 buffalo, 10 moose, 27 wapiti, 19 Rocky 

 Mountain sheep, and 6 Rocky Mountain goats. It is pro- 

 posed to release a number of the wapiti from their commodi- 

 ous paddock in order that they may repopulate what for- 

 merly constituted the natural range of the wapiti. This 

 area, together with Jasper and Waterton Lakes Parks, 

 will serve as unrivalled breeding-ground for the big-game 

 animals of the Rocky Mountains region, and the surplus 

 wild-life population will afford a constant supply of big- 

 game and fur-bearing animals for the adjacent unprotected 

 regions. This is one of the great advantages of such natural 

 reserves. 



Waterton Lakes Park. — This is the third and most south- 

 erly of the Dominion Parks in the Rocky Mountain region 

 of Alberta. It now includes an area of 423 square miles in 

 the southwestern corner of the province, where it is con- 

 tiguous to the Glacier National Park, which was created by 

 the United States Government, the whole reserved area 

 forming a magnificent scenic and wild-life reservation. It 

 is a region of impressive mountains and lakes, with deeply 



*June, 1919. 



