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by a fourteen -strand wire fence, seventy-three 

 miles in length, with two cross fences, forming 

 enclosures for the buffalo during the breeding 

 season. . . . The area enclosed at present is 

 considered sufficient for the support of from 5,000 

 to 7,000 buffaloes. There are now 700 of the 

 creatures on this reservation, the largest herd in 

 the world.' 



Apart from the above-mentioned reserves, there 

 are no less than nine others situated in North 

 America. The largest of these is the Temagami 

 Reserve, in the State of Ontario, which is 3,750,000 

 acres in extent ; and the next in size is Jasper 

 Park, in Alberta, which comprises an area of 

 3,200,000 acres. The Rocky Mountams Park, 

 or Banff Park, as it is frequently called, also in the 

 State of Alberta, is of 2,880,000 acres ; the Alogon- 

 quin National Park, in Ontario, 1,800,000 acres ; 

 while the Lauertides National Park, of Quebec, 

 covers an area of 1,689,600 acres. A somewhat 

 smaller reserve known as Yoho Park, in Alberta, 

 covers 530,000 acres ; and the Glacier Park, also 

 in the same State, is 368,640 acres in extent. In 

 British Columbia, the East Kootenay Reserve 

 covers an area of 288,000 acres ; and another one, 

 in the Yalokom Mountains, 192,000 acres. The 

 authority previously quoted tells us that Banff 

 Park was first estabUshed as an animal sanctuary 

 by an Act of Parhament which was passed in the 

 year 1887. It is a very popular resort for hohday- 

 makers, for besides the live moose, various kinds 

 of bears, deer, foxes, wolves, lynxes, marmots, 



