Q14 THE PRESENT AND FUTURE 
exterminate quickly all the mountain sheep that they possess. 
The time for serious protective measures has fully arrived. 
Both British Columbia and Alberta have even yet fine 
herds of big-horn, and we can count three large game preserves 
in which they are protected. They are Goat Mountain Park 
(East Kootenay district, between the Elk and Bull Rivers); 
the Rocky Mountains Park, near Banff, and Waterton Lakes 
Park, in the southwestern corner of Alberta. 
In view of the number of men who desire to hunt them, 
the bag limit on big-horn rams in British Columbia and Al- 
berta is still too liberal, by half. One ram per year for one 
man is quite enough; quite as much so as one moose is the 
limit everywhere. To-day “a big old ram” is regarded by 
sportsmen as a much more desirable and creditable trophy 
than a moose; because moose-killing is easy, and the bagging 
of an old mountain ram in real mountains requires five times 
as much effort and skill. 
The splendid high and rugged mountains of British Co- 
lumbia and Alberta form an ideal home for the big-horn (and 
mountain goat), and it would be an international calamity for 
that region to be denuded of its splendid big game. With 
resolute intent and judicial treatment, that region can re- 
main a rich and valuable hunting-ground for five hundred 
years to come. Under falsely “liberal” laws, it can be shot 
into a state of complete desolation within ten years, or even 
less. 
OtrHerR Mountain SHEEP.—In northern British Columbia, 
north of Iskoot Lake, there lies a tremendous region, extend- 
ing to the Arctic Ocean, and comprehending the whole area 
