American Big Game in its Haunts 



aware that they are not to be disturbed near the 

 hotels, and they show themselves at such places 

 without fear; at the same time that outside the 

 Park (and when the early snow is on the ground 

 their tracks are often observed going both out and 

 in) these same beasts are very shy indeed. The 

 hunter soon discovers that it is with the greatest 

 difficulty that one ever sees them at all outside of 

 the bounds of the Park. Bears, as well as deer, 

 adapt themselves to the exigencies of the situation ; 

 the grizzly, since the white man stole from him 

 and the Indian the whole face of the earth, 

 has become a night-ranging instead of a 

 diurnal creature. The deer, we may safely rest 

 assured, makes quite as close a study of humans 

 as man does of the deer. It is a question of 

 life and death with them that they should under- 

 stand him and his methods. Both the deer and 

 the hunters would profit by the widest possible 

 distribution of these protected areas. Each sec- 

 tion of the State is entitled to the benefit to be de- 

 rived from their presence in its vicinity. More- 

 over, and I believe that this is a consideration of 

 no slight moment, the creation of many small 

 refuges, not too close together, would obviate one 

 great difficulty which threatens to wreck the en- 

 tire scheme. There have appeared signs of oppo- 



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