APPENDIX 



365 



Nepisiguit, Little Southwest Miramichi, and the Serpentine 

 branch of the Tobique Rivers. 



The aggregate area of the public game refuges of the United 

 States and Canada in which there are moose is already greater, by 

 7000 square miles, than the area of the States of Massachusetts, 

 New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, and Rhode Island 

 combined. Most of the territory thus utilized is valuable for 

 the production of timber, and the protection of water supplies, 

 but is useless for agriculture, and the yield of timber will 

 never be impaired by the animals and birds which find sanc- 

 tuary there. 



There is a constant tendency to increase the number and 

 extent of the refuges where game animals and birds may breed 

 undisturbed. For several years a plan has been under con- 

 sideration at Washington to create a National park which 

 shall include Katahdin Mountain in Maine, and the estab- 

 lishment of game refuges in the moose country of Nova Scotia 

 has also been proposed. Such tracts, being under government 

 control, and hunting being at all times forbidden, will effectively 

 insure the maintenance, indefinitely, of a large stock of game. 

 Moose are hardy and prolific, and the overflow from the 

 many widely-scattered game refuges will serve to stock vast 

 areas where hunting would be permitted. 



C. 



MOOSE IN MICHIGAN 

 (See page 36) 



Moose are increasing rapidly in numbers on Isle Royale in 

 Lake Superior. The island, forty-seven miles in length, belongs 

 to Michigan, but lies close to the Canadian side of the lake. 

 It is frequented to some extent by summer visitors, but is \xn* 

 inhabited in winter. 



Dr. Charles C. Adams, professor of forest zoology in the 

 New York College of Forestry, who spent two months at 



