234 THE PRESENT AND FUTURE 
Montana, outside of Glacier Park, it is useless to apply for 
wild grizzlies. In the Bitter Root Mountains and Clearwater 
Mountains of Idaho there are grizzlies, but they hide so effec- 
tually under the snow-bent willows on the “‘slides” that it is 
almost impossible to get a shot at one of them. Northwestern 
Wyoming still contains a few grizzlies, but there are so many 
square miles of mountains around each animal it is now almost 
useless to go hunting for them. British Columbia, western 
Alberta and the coast mountains, at least as far as Skaguay, 
and Yukon Territory generally, all contain grizzlies, and the 
sportsman who goes out for sheep, caribou and moose is 
reasonably certain to see half a dozen bears and kill at least 
one or two. In those countries the grizzly species will hold 
forth long after all killable grizzlies have vanished from the 
United States. 
I think that it is now time for California, Montana, Wash- 
ington, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming to give grizzly bears 
protection of some sort. Possibly the situation in those 
states calls for a five-year close season. Even British Colum- 
bia should now place a bag limit on this species. This has 
seemed clear to me ever since (in the spring of 1912) two of 
my friends killed szx grizzlies in one week! But Provincial 
Game Warden A. Bryan Williams says that at present it 
would be impossible to impose a bag limit of one per year on 
the grizzlies of British Columbia; and Mr. Williams is a sin- 
cere game-protector. 
THe Brown Berars or Axraska.—These magnificent 
monsters present a perplexing problem which I am inclined 
to believe can be satisfactorily solved by the Biological Sur- 
