A GREAT ANTELOPE PRESERVE IN 

 ALBERTA 



TO the Government of Canada belongs the credit of 

 having created the first great fenced preserve ever 

 made exclusively for the preservation of the prong-horned 

 antelope from extinction. The new establishment is situ- 

 ated in south-eastern Alberta, and it contains 5,000 acres. 

 The moving spirit of it all was Maxwell Graham, Esq., now 

 a Lieutenant in the Canadian Army. 



The impending disappearance of the prong-horned ante- 

 lope, due partly to its lack of hardiness and vigor, but chiefly 

 to lawless shooting, has received important recognition both 

 in the United States and Canada. In the antelope regions 

 of the United States every state which still contains any 

 prong-horned antelope has extended permanent protection 

 to that species. 



Efforts have been made to acclimatize the species with 

 other animals in fenced game preserves, such as the Mon- 

 tana National Bison Range, the Wichita Bison Range, and 

 the range at Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota. 

 Thus far those attempts at colonization have not attained a 

 very full measure of success. The prong-horned antelope 

 is so easily injured by accident, so easily discouraged from 

 breeding, and so easily killed by disease, that up to date 

 there appears to be little ground for the hope that the spe- 

 cies can be saved in fenced enclosures which contain other 

 species of larger and more vigorous animals. 



At all hazards, the governments of the United States and 

 Canada should preserve the antelope from extinction, and 

 perpetuate it. Zoologically it is our most unique and ex- 

 clusively American-hoofed animal, and its extinction would 



