Oct. i8, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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Buffalo in Canada. 
“There arc fully 500 head of wood buffalo 
west and north of Fort Smith, on the Peace 
and the Great Slave rivers, in the extreme 
northeastern part of Alberta,” said A. J. Bell, 
•who has charge of the northern Indian agen¬ 
cies, on returning to Edmonton from the 
silent north, where he is guardian of 3,000 
Indians of the Yellow Knife, Dog Rib, Chipe- 
wyan and Cariboo Eaters tribes. 
Mr. Bell, who has been in the north since 
the winter of 1911, was accompanied to civili¬ 
zation by Mrs. Bell and their two children, 
born at Fort Smith, and Nathaniel Gear, chief 
herder of the Government’s reindeer, brought 
from St. Anthony, Newfoundland, to northern 
Alberta, and Mrs. Gear. The two last named 
are natives of the Labrador coast. Gear 
learned the management of the reindeer from 
the Laplanders and formerly had charge of 
Dr. Grenfell’s herds in Newfoundland. 
“Some time ago I made a proposal to 
the Dominion Government that the buffalo 
in the Fort Smith districts be confined by 
a fence in the peninsula between the Peace 
and Great Slave rivers,” Mr. Bell said. “This 
would afford better protection to the animals. 
The fence, 125 miles in length, would cost 
about $103,000. The buffalo in the northern 
district have every mark of resemblance to 
bison of the plains, hut constant living in the 
heavy timbered country has made them much 
wilder than the prairie buffalo. They are al¬ 
most unapproachable. As these animals are 
protected, no killing being permitted, there 
should be a rapid increase in their numbers.” 
Mr. Bell also reported there are musk 
oxen north of Fort Smith, where Dr. Wheeler, 
of B^falo, is on a hunt. Dr. Wheeler started 
from Fort Ray a year ago, but when last 
heard from he was still on the trail. He sent 
word to the fort recently that he would re¬ 
main until he bagged at least one ox, even 
if he had to stay another year. 
“The reindeer at Fort Smith are thriving,’ 
Mr. Bell added, “and we expect they will in¬ 
crease rapidly. Of a herd of forty-six brought 
from Newfoundland in 1911, nineteen animals 
died on the route, due chiefly to the rush in 
shipment.” 
Wichita Buffalo Herd Increased. 
The birth of ten calves in the buffalo herd 
maintained by the Government on the Wichita 
national forest and game refuge, near Lawton, 
Oklahoma, has been reported by the game 
warden in charge. The herd now contains 
a total of forty-eight head of full-blooded 
buffalo, or, more properly, bison, of which 
twenty-seven are males and twenty-one 
females. All of the animals are in splendid 
condition. 
In 1907 the American Bison Society 
donated to the Federal Government a nucleus 
herd of fifteen animals, which had been bred 
and reared in the New York Zoological Park. 
The animals were transported to the Wichita 
national forest, which is also a game refuge, 
and placed under the care of the Forest Ser¬ 
vice. They readily adapted themselves to 
their new habitat, but the area upon which 
they were placed was within the zone affected 
by the Texas fever tick, and during the two or 
three years following their transfer, only the 
constant care and watchfulness of the forest 
officers prevented the complete loss of the 
herd. 
The animals were examined almost daily 
to determine whether they had become in¬ 
fested with Texas fever ticks, and were placed 
in specially designed cages and sprayed with 
crude oil at intervals of from fifteen to thirty 
days, but notwithstanding the extreme pre¬ 
cautions which were adopted, three of the 
animals died Gradually, however, the en¬ 
closures in which the buffalo were confined 
were freed from fever ticks, and there is a 
possibility that as the buffalo adapted them¬ 
selves to their new environment, they became 
more or less immune to the disease. No losses 
from Texas fever have occurred for several 
years, and the herd has almost quadrupled in 
number since it was established. 
The fact that the herd has not increased 
more rapidly is due largely to the prepon¬ 
derance of male calves. This characteristic of 
the buffalo is so pronounced in all of the herds 
now in captivity that a cow is considered 
twice as valuable as a bull. 
The lands burned over during the terrible 
fires on the Idaho National forests in 1910 are 
now largely covered with a thick growth of 
young tree seedlings, by natural re-seeding. 
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