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the proposed Lesser Slave Forest reserve lying south and west of Lesser 

 Slave lake, and east of the trail between Edson and the Peace River 

 district, the south boundary being the Athabaska river. The balance 

 is made up of several additions to the Rocky Mountains reserve, the 

 boundary examination of which had not been completed when the 

 Forest Reserves Act was passed. The additions He to the east of the 

 present line, and consist largely of foothill country and muskeg. 



Eight and four and a half per cent, respectively, of the total ad- 

 ditions recommended are in Saskatchewan and Manitoba. These are 

 spruce, jack pine and poplar lands, partly muskeg and partly sandy, 

 of no agricultural value, but of great importance as potential sources 

 of timber supply for large prairie sections. The timber in certain 

 portions of the proposed additions is already disposed of as licensed 

 timber berths, and on some of these areas extensive lumbering operations 

 are being carried on. 



Proposed _ The areas in British Colimibia recommended for ad- 



Britfs?^^ ^ dition comprise approximately 15.5 per cent of the total. 

 Columbia This is mountainous, timbered land in the Railway 



Belt, and is of great importance as a watershed, draining into irrigation 

 districts where water is essential to the best use of large agricultural 

 areas. 



Game Preserve in the Rocky Mountains 



It is of interest to note that a recommendation is to be submitted 

 by the Dominion Forestry Branch for the establishment of a game 

 preserve in the southern portion of the Rocky Mountains Forest re- 

 serve. The proposed game preserve lies due north of the Glacier 

 National Park, which is situated in the north-western portion of Mon- 

 tana, and which serves, also, as a game refuge. The establishment of a 

 similar refuge in southwestern Alberta adjoining the Glacier National 

 Park has for several years been advocated by the Camp Fire Club of 

 America and by a considerable nvmiber of prominent men in Canada. 

 The proposed action of the Forestry Branch would unquestionably 

 assist materially in the conservation of wild animal life in the Rocky 

 Mountain region. 



It is also highly desirable that similar action be taken by the Gov- 

 ernment of British Columbia in the establishment of a game preserve 

 in southeastern British Columbia, adjoining the area in Alberta to 

 be covered by the game preserve recommended by the Dominion 

 Forestry Branch and extending westward to the Flathead river, thus 

 coinciding with the western boundary of the Glacier National Park. 



