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wholly deceptive and lead to an unwarranted feeling of security on the 

 part of those interested in game preservation but not familiar with 

 actual field conditions. The game preserves proposed by the Forestry 

 Branch are not intended as show places. They have been deliberately 

 placed at a distance from the main transcontinental railways in order to 

 promote their effectiveness. There are plenty of parks wherein the 

 tourists who stay close to the railways can see all the game they wish. 

 The parks are all rightly game preserves, in spite of many obvious 

 handicaps. These proposed game preserves are of a different type, and 

 whether or not it is practicable to control the Stoneys outside the pre- 

 serves, it is certainly practicable to prevent them getting into these 

 preserves with guns. 



Summary 



The following measures are necessary for the successful preserva- 

 tion of the big game of the four western provinces : 



1. A modification of the Saskatchewan game preserve policy along 

 the lines followed in Manitoba, namely, a delineation of game preserves 

 wifhin forest reserves as a result of special study of conditions, in- 

 stead of a blanket creation of all forest reserves into game preserves. 



2. A modification of the Alberta Game Act so as to permit the 

 establishment of game preserves without the necessity of creating them 

 Dominion parks. 



3. The establishment in Alberta of the game preserve system 

 recommended by the Dominion Forestry Branch and the extension of 

 the same detailed study of the game situation to the region lying north 

 of 53° N. latitude. 



4. The establishment of a similar game preserve system in the more 

 settled portions of British Columbia, and especially the strengthening 

 of the inadequate force of game guardians on those already created. 



5. The establishment of an adequate antelope park by the Dominion 

 Government somewhere in southern Alberta or Saskatchewan on the 

 lines of the buffalo park at Wainwright.* 



6. The placing of a complete closed season on elk in Manitoba and 

 Saskatchewan, and the reduction of the bag limit in Alberta from two 

 sheep arid two goats to one of each. 



7. Cooperation of all forces interested in an effort to compel the 

 Stoneys to observe the game laws of the province of Alberta. ' 



*Steps have been taken towards this end. See page 130. 



