September, 1920 
FOREST AND STREAM 
513 
THE GAME RANGES 
OF KLAPPAN 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 487) 
T HE second day’s hunt was full of in- 
terest and excitement. From six in 
the morning until eight-thirty at 
night we traveled through the mountains 
in search of the Stone ram. 
We saw twenty-five or thirty ewes and 
some young rams, but no old ones. A 
very prominent fact, requiring some com- 
ment, was the lack of lambs with the 
ewes, as we saw but one of them. 
Wolves and coyotes destroy the young 
of the mountain sheep. The coyote is the 
greater destroyer of the two because 
there are so many more of them, but we 
found the remains of a fully matured 
ram that had probably been killed by a 
wolf. Likewise the fact that many cari- 
bou cows are without calves has recently 
become quite noticeable. The same de- 
stroying agencies are held responsible as 
in the case of the sheep. I believe that 
the wolf hangs about the bands of the 
sheep and herds of caribou as he former- 
ly followed the buffalo, but, of course, not 
to the same extent. 
From my limited observation I cannot 
say whether these predatory animals are 
destroying sheep and caribou faster than 
they are reproduced, but it may be that, 
unless they were thus destroyed, they 
would soon increase to the extent that 
their food supply would be insufficient to 
maintain them. It is a matter that calls 
for careful observation by the Canadian 
government. 
We saw many moose beds and game 
trails extending in every direction. There 
were the sheep paths among the peaks, 
the caribou trails over the broad level 
mountains and the trails of the moose in 
the valleys. 
It is very difficult to see the Stone 
sheep at any considerable distance. Espe- 
cially is this so when they are lying 
down, as they are of an iron grey color, 
sometimes almost black and their color 
matches with the black lichens on the 
grey rocks and the black sands at the 
base of the peaks. At a distance of six 
hundred yards the naked eye cannot see 
them unless they are on the sky line, and 
through eight power binoculars they ap- 
pear very small at that distance, but the 
Indian is quick at picking them out from 
among the rocks. 
In the morning we had seen four or 
five billies on a cliff in a canyon and on 
the way home in the afternoon Struble 
decided to get two of them. When we 
returned to the place where we saw them 
in the morning they were still on the 
cliff. Alongside the cliff there was a 
steep glacier, so Struble and his guide 
went to the top of the canyon opposite 
them. My guide went to the top and I 
went up the bottom of the canyon to a 
point beneath them. As the canyon was 
a blind one we had those goats well sur- 
rounded. The plan was to drive them 
over to the side of the canyon where 
Struble was located. To accomplish this 
my guide let out a howl that sounded like 
a pack of wolves. This put the goats 
to flight and away they went, but of 
course contrary to our plan. They ran 
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