Canada’s New Rocky Mountains 
Forest Reserve. 
In view of the recent establishment of Glacier 
National Park in the State of Montana, just 
south of the boundary line, some information as 
to Canada’s progress in the work of conserving 
the forests and streams and protecting the game 
in the country immediately north of the Glacier 
Park, will be of interest to those who are in 
been placed under the general charge of Howard 
Douglas, Commissioner of Dominion Parks, and 
a local man appointed to look after it. 
The regulations under which this park is ad¬ 
ministered provide for the absolute protection 
of game and limit the fishing to sporting 
methods, and to such quantities, size and season 
as will guard against depleting the waters of 
fish. It is probable that ere long certain portions 
of the water front in this park will be divided 
crest of the main range of the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains, wh ch forms the boundary between the 
Provinces of Alberta and British Columbia to 
the intersection of that line with the 120th 
Meridian. The easterly linrt forms an irregular 
line, running at a distance from the westerly 
limit of from ten to thirty miles up to the 51st 
parallel and thence widening to a distance of 
from thirty to fifty miles up to the 54th parallel 
from where it tapers to the 120th Meridian. 
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WATERTON LAKE, THE CANADIAN END. 
The Southern End of the Lake is in the Glacier National Park. 
sympathy with the conservation of natural re¬ 
sources. In 1895 the Waterton Lakes Forest 
Park, which is situated on the International 
boundary line, about thirty miles southwest of 
Cardston, Alta., and adjoins the Glacier National 
Park, was set aside by Order in Council. It was 
subsequently included as one of the forest re¬ 
serves in the Forest Reserves Act of 1906, but 
owing to the signal grandeur of its mountains 
the exceptional beauty of its waters and its con¬ 
sequent popularity as a summer resort, it was 
decided to administer it as one of the series 
of Dominion parks. The park has, therefore, 
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into building lots and camping sites. These 
building lots will be leased to applicants at an 
annual rental and the camping sites will be held 
for the use of the public at a nominal permit fee. 
I'he Canadian Government has also decided to 
reserve from sale and settlement in the interests 
of the conservation of the forest and the pro¬ 
tection of the water supply, the rougher, forested 
portions of the eastern slope of the Rocky 
Mountains. This reservation, comprising ap¬ 
proximately 14,400 square miles, commences at 
the International boundary and runs about 410 
miles in a northwesterly direction, following the 
In the tract described are already situated the 
Waterton Lakes Park, fifty-four square miles 
in extent; the Rocky Mountains Park, comprising 
4.500 square miles, and Jasper Forest Park with 
an area of 5,000 square miles. These parks are 
administered under the provisions of the Do¬ 
minion Parks regulations, which prohibit hunt¬ 
ing and shooting, but provide for fishing under 
adequate restrictions. In the portions of the re¬ 
serve not already set aside as parks, it is the 
intention to permit hunting and trapping only 
upon the securing of a v permit at a nominal fee 
good for one year. 
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