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ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY BULLETIN. 



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SUPERIOR NATIONAL GAME AND FOREST PRESERVE. 



The new Superior Preserve is valuable as a 

 game and forest reserve, and nothing else. It is 

 a wilderness of small lakes, marshes, creeks, 

 hummocks of land, scrubby timber, and prac- 

 tically nothing of commercial value. But the 

 wilderness contains many moose, and zoologi- 

 cally, it is to all practical purposes a moose 

 preserve. 



In 1908 Mr. Avery saw fifty-one moose in 

 three days, Mr. Fullerton saw 183 in nine days, 

 and Mr. Fullerton estimates the total number of 

 moose in Minnesota as a whole at 10,000 head. 



In area it contains nearly 909,743 acres, and 

 its boundaries are shown (for the first time in a 

 periodical) on the accompanying map. The 

 creation of this great preserve was finished on 

 April 13, 1909. 



In this connection, it is of interest to notice 

 briefly another national game preserve of recent 

 creation, and to publish a map showing its lo- 

 cation. 



THE GRAND CANON NATIONAL GAME PRESERVE. 



Even to most persons who are interested in 

 conservation work it will be fresh news that in 

 northern Arizona the Government has estab- 

 lished a game and forest preserve equal in scenic 



wonders as well as in area to the Yellowstone 

 National Park. It is called the Grand Canon 

 National Game Preserve, and it consists of the 

 Kaibab Plateau and Buckskin Mountain on the 

 north, the first portion of the canon of the 

 Colorado, and also a great area southward there- 

 of. It contains, in round numbers, 2,019,000 

 acres, or 3311 square miles. It includes all of 

 the area formerly comprising the "Grand Canon 

 National Monument," and fully twice as much 

 more. 



The country south of the Colorado Canon is 

 comparatively well known, but to most Amer- 

 icans the Kaibab Plateau is a veritable terra 

 incognita. It is in that wild and rugged region 

 of broken country, rocks, hills, valleys, brush 

 and a splendid pine-clad mountain plateau loom- 

 ing up over all, that "Buffalo" Jones has located 

 his herd of American bison and "cattaloes," for 

 his latest experiment in breeding a valuable 

 strain of bison blood into range cattle. For- 

 tunately for those interested, there has recently 

 been published about that region a book of 

 thrilling interest. It is Zane Gray's "Last of 

 the Plainsmen," published by the Outing Pub- 

 lishing Company. It is valuable as a general 

 view of a wild and almost unknown region, and 



