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it. This refuge comprises 1420 square miles, and United 

 States forestry officials estimate that it contains at present 150a 

 moose. 



Quetico Provincial Reserve in vrestern Ontario comprises 

 about 3900 square miles adjoining the Superior National 

 Forest. The number of moose in the Quetico Reserve was 

 estimated by Hugh McDonald, the superintendent, in October, 

 19 19, at about 3500, and this, he says, is a conservative estimate 

 based on the reports of rangers and others, as vrell as on per- 

 sonal observation. The two tracts thus aggregate 5300 square 

 miles of contiguous territory, and the 5000 moose occupying 

 the reserves enjoy at all times complete legal protection. 



In addition to the Clearwater and Mount Robson game 

 reserves in British Columbia, R. E. Hose, secretary of the 

 Game Conservation Board, writes that two other game re- 

 serves are maintained in the southern part of the Province. 

 In these, he says, there are few if any moose, "although all 

 reports show that the moose are working south throughout 

 this Province." 



The late Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Consulting Zoologist of 

 the Canadian Government, in a work devoted to ''Conserva- 

 tion of the Wild Life of Canada," which will be published 

 in 1920, states that it is the policy of the government of 

 Quebec, on the borders of the parks which are most open to 

 the inroads of poachers, to lease tracts of moderate size to 

 individuals or clubs. These leases are for five-year periods, 

 and under their terms the lessees are required to employ 

 guardians, approved by the government, to insure adequate 

 protection of the leased areas. By this means the game in 

 the interior is effectively safeguarded. "Moose are plentiful 

 in the Gaspesian reserve, as well as in the Laurentides Park,'* 

 wrote Dr. Hewitt. 



The latest addition to the list of game refuges is that estab- 

 lished in New Brunswick in 191 9. It comprises 400 square 

 miles, or about eleven townships, and includes some of the 

 best moose territory in the Province, at the head-waters of the 



