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acclimatize the antelope — in the Wichita National Bison 

 Range, in Oklahoma, and in the Montana Bison Range, at 

 Ravalli. In 1911 the Boone and Crockett Club provided a 

 fund which defrayed the expenses of shipping from the Yel- 

 lowstone Park a small nucleus herd to each of those ranges. 

 Eight were sent to the Wichita Range, of which five arrived 

 alive. Of the seven sent to the Montana Range, four ar- 

 rived alive and were duly set free. In 1913 four young were 

 born in that little herd. 



The province of Alberta, in Canada, still permits the 

 hunting and killing of antelope; which is wholly and entirely 

 wrong. 



The Big-Horn Sheep. — Of North American big game, the 

 big-horn of the Rockies will be, after the antelope, the next 

 species to become extinct outside of protected areas. In the 

 United States that event is fast approaching. It is far 

 nearer than even the big-game sportsmen realize. There 

 are to-day only two localities in the four states that still 

 think they have killable sheep, in which it is worth while to 

 go sheep-hunting. One is in Montana, and the other is in 

 Wyoming. In the United States a really big, creditable ram 

 may now be regarded as an impossibility. There are now 

 perhaps half a dozen guides who can find killable sheep in our 

 country, but the game consists nearly always of young rams, 

 under five years of age. 



All the states that still permit the killing of mountain 

 sheep are making a particularly stupid and fatal blunder. 

 Their game laws permit the killing of rams only, and with the 

 fatuous folly of an imperilled ostrich that sticks its head in 



