AMERICAN RANGE OF THE MOOSE 



Quebec, west and northwest to Bering Sea, avoid- 

 ing the plains of southern Saskatchewan and 

 Alberta, stretches an unbroken range, harboring 

 great numbers of moose, numbers which can go on 

 increasing since fate has decreed that Indians shall 

 decrease. The territory gained by the moose in 

 recent years has been chiefly in the Canadian 

 >rthwest, and in Alaska. Northern British 

 Columbia, and the region lying farther north, as 

 far as the delta of the Mackenzie, within the 

 Arctic Circle, is all included in the moose's great 

 domain. 



The boundaries of this range, especially in the 

 north, would, in a long series of years, show some 

 minor changes, caused chiefly no doubt by fluctua- 

 tion in the food supply. Insufficient forage, due to 

 seasons of drouth, forest fires, and other causes, 

 may induce a more or less general migration, 

 but under favorable conditions the abandoned 

 territory would be again occupied. Dr. Robert 

 Bell, chief of the Canadian Geological Survey, in a 



" An excellent paper discussing the range of the moose is given by 

 Madison Grant, secretary of the New York Zoological Society, in the 

 Seventh Report of the N. Y. State Forest, Fish, and Game Commission, 

 1901. The resources of Alaska with respect to moose and other game 

 are described in the Year Book of the Department of Agriculture for 

 1907, pages 469-482, and by the same writer in the National Geographic 

 Magazine for July, 1909. See also article by Geo.ge Shiras, 3d, in. 

 National Geographic Magazine, May, 19 12. 



