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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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 SKETCH MaP 



ELK AMI BULL RIVERS "' 

 REGION 

 EAST KUOTE>AY H.C. 



BRITISH COLUMBIA'S NEW GAME PRESERVE. 

 Dotted lines show the original proposition. 



March 3, 1909. Mt. Olympus National 

 Monument, Washington. 



April 13, 1909. Superior National Forest 

 and Game Preserve. 



We may well rejoice over the year's record. 

 The four great sanctuaries named above will 

 greatly promote the permanence on this conti- 

 nent of the moose, wapiti, bison, mountain goat 

 and sheep, grizzly bear, black bear and mule 

 deer. We will briefly summarize the most im- 

 portant facts regarding each of^ the four new 

 preserves. 



THE MONTANA NATIONAL BISON RANGE. 



This fenced preserve was established by a 

 special act of Congress, on May 23, 1908, at 

 the solicitation of the American Bison Society. 

 In response to the offer of the Society to pre- 

 sent to the government the nucleus herd of 

 bison. Congress has appropriated, in all, 

 $30,000 for the purchase from the Flathead In- 

 dians of twenty-eight square miles of grazing 

 grounds at Ravalli, Montana, and $13,000 with 

 which to defray the cost of fencing it suitably. 

 In addition to the bison, this fenced range will 

 be stocked as soon as possible with prong- 



horned antelope. The success of the bison in 

 self-sustaining herds, on that range, is by no 

 means an experiment. It is a demonstrated cer- 

 tainty. 



The Forest Service of the Department of 

 Agriculture is now at work erecting the fence 

 around this great range, and it is hoped that 

 it can be completed by October 1, in order that 

 the Bison Society gift herd of about fifty-four 

 pure-blood bison can then be delivered upon the 

 range, and installed. This range can easily 

 maintain 1,000 bison, and it is fairly certain 

 that many members of the Bison Society will 

 live to see that number of individuals grazing 

 upon it. 



The Bison Society has raised $10,560 in cash 

 with which to purchase about forty-two bison, 

 and fourteen head have been presented to the 

 Society by their owners, for the benefit of the 

 Montana herd. 



British Columbia's new game preserve. 



On November 15, 1908, the Legislative Coun- 

 cil of British Columbia issued a proclamation 

 which converts into an absolute game preserve 

 about 450 square miles of territory between the 

 Elk and Bull Rivers, and around Monro Lake. 

 With a subtraction on the south and an impor- 

 tant addition on the northwest, it is otherwise 

 the "Goat Mountain Park" territory, for the 

 preservation of which John M. Phillips and 

 William T. Hornaday for two years or more 

 waged a strenuous campaign of education and 

 appeal. In the final half of the struggle 

 (against active opposition) they were joined by 

 some of the most prominent citizens of Fernie, — 

 Mayor W. W. Tuttle, J. B. Turney and Hon. 

 W. R. Ross, M. P. — and by Warburton Pike, 

 Clive Phillips-Wolley, and other sportsmen and 

 naturalists in Victoria. The Provincial Game 

 Warden, A. Bryan Williams, played a highly 

 important part in the accomplishment of the 

 final result, and it was he who established the 

 boundaries. 



The result is a great victory for the moun- 

 tain goat, mountain sheep, elk, mule deer, and 

 grizzly bear. The area in question is an ideal 

 home for the goat and sheep. Of the former, 

 the new game preserve contains about one thou- 

 sand head, and of the latter at least two hun- 

 dred, all of them living and breeding there, all 

 the year round. The scenery of the preserve is 

 surpassingly fine, and it is well stocked with 

 many important forms of Rocky Mountain 

 mammals and birds. It was in this region that 

 Professor Henry F. Osborn and Mr. Phillips 

 obtained in 1905 their famous photographs of 

 living mountain goats in their haunts. 



