Out-of-Door Playgrounds of 
Page Eleven The SanIsabel National Forest 
TWIN SISTERS PEAKS. 
Typical of the rugged beauty of the Sangre de Cristo Range, 
Game Animals and Birds 
There are large numbers of black-tail or mule deer in all parts of 
the San Isabel Forest, and they are slowly increasing under the pro- 
tection afforded by the State game laws. Mountain sheep are found 
in the high, rocky timber-line country of the Sangre de Cristo and 
Culebra ranges. Their most frequented haunts are near the head- 
waters of Brush, Colony, Sand, Crestone, and Venable Creeks, where 
they may occasionally be observed in the summer time. There are 
a few bear and mountain lions in the wilder and less-frequented parts 
of the Forest. 
Elk, king of the antlered wild game which some decades ago 
roamed these ranges of the Rocky Mountains, have been practically 
extinct for the past 35 years. In 1916, however, the Forest Service, 
in cooperation with the Biological Survey and citizens and clubs of 
Pueblo, imported 24 head of elk from the Yellowstone National Park 
in Wyoming and released them in the vicinity of Buelah and Rye in 
the Wet Mountains. The increase of this band, counted by Forest 
