will ensure as much as possible freedom from disease 
among the herd. 
This report would not be complete without some 
mention as to the wild herd of so-called wood bison. 
A definite and well defined district, within which prac- 
tically all these buffalo have their habitat, has now 
been established, viz: that portion of land bounded on 
the west by the Caribou Mountains, on the south by 
the Peace River, on the east by the Slave River and on 
the north by an imaginary line drawn from the Caribou 
Mountains on the west to the Slave River on the east. 
touching the latter on about Point Ennuyoux and the 
MONTANA NATIONAL HERD 
BULL AND COW, MONTANA NATIONAL BISON RANGE 
former about fifty miles south of Buffalo Lake; com- 
prising about 8,000 square miles of dense forest, inter- 
spersed with park-like meadows, abounding in lush 
grass and herbage, and distant some seven hundred 
miles north of Edmonton, Alta. These woodland 
buffalo, in regard to size, perfection of type and splen- 
did condition, appear to be the very culmination of 
their species. Owing to this herd being split up into 
small bands, continually moving from one part of 
their range to another, the feeding grounds being 
separated by many miles of dense forest, it has so far 
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