October, 1918 
FOREST AND STREAM 
583 
nai Brown,” who lived near the Waterton 
Lakes for more than forty years, and for 
several years had been ranger in the 
Waterton Lake Park. 
The Rocky Mountains Park with Banff 
as a center is interestingly described and 
in this Park, at Banff, and in some of the 
other parks win¬ 
ter sports are held 
which have proved 
exceedingly inter¬ 
esting and have 
drawn crowds to 
the region. It is 
stated that at the 
annual carnival at 
Revel stoke in the 
winter of 1916-17 
a jump was made 
of 160 feet on 
skis. This is 11 
feet farther than 
the previous jump 
made by any ama¬ 
teur in Canada. 
The Superin¬ 
tendent of the 
Rocky Mountains 
Park reports the 
jrosecution of a 
veil-known guide 
ind outfitter for 
dotation of the 
■egulations — kill- 
ng Rocky Moun- 
ain sheep at or 
tear the salt take 
in the automobile 
oad, and having 
art of the carcass 
a his residence 
/hen it was 
earched. The cul- 
rit was fined and 
is license as a 
ark guide can- 
el e d. Examples 
itch as this must 
e made. 
The Curator of 
le Banff Museum 
takes his report 
id there is a re- 
irt of the Alpine 
lub of Canada, 
ow admirably 
lese reports are 
lustrated is 
town by some of 
e cuts printed in 
e present issue. 
The report of 
e Curator of the 
useum presents 
me points of in¬ 
rest. Among 
- additions to his bird collections are a 
nvasback duck, four long tailed—old- 
uaw ducks, seemingly out of place here 
the center of the continent, a horned 
ebe, Richardson’s grouse, raven and 
istern horned owl. A targe beaver, 
ight 70 lbs, has been mounted with 
iver felled balsam, poplar and chips. 
ie back of the case is painted with a 
"est scene. 
3 esides this the Curator has collected 
ny insects, spiders and plants, but he re¬ 
grets that some of the wild flowers are al¬ 
ready becoming rare about Banff. In other 
words, the thoughtless destructive Ameri¬ 
can spirit exists in Canada as it ^does here. 
People pluck beautiful flowers* and then 
throw them away, or tear up by the roots 
rare plants which are carried for a short 
T HE sight of their beautiful and mys¬ 
terious animals scattered in such 
great numbers over these vast play¬ 
grounds stirs the blood of the big game 
hunters and is, besides, keenly interesting 
to women and little children who know 
nothing about hunting. The wild animals 
of the mountains 
have an attraction 
for all human be¬ 
ings. The oppor¬ 
tunity of seeing 
them in their na¬ 
tive haunts opens 
up a great oppor¬ 
tunity for the 
study of practical 
zoology. It may 
be imagined that 
all over the coun¬ 
try schools and 
colleges which 
give instruction in 
natural history 
will ultimately at¬ 
tempt to form 
classes o f their 
students which 
may be brought 
out to these parks 
and taught in a 
practical way les¬ 
sons i n natural 
history that other¬ 
wise they could 
never learn. 
Something o f 
this sort has been 
suggested by men 
connected with the 
United States Na¬ 
tional Park Ser¬ 
vice and a wide¬ 
spread interest has 
sprung up in the 
effort to expand 
instruction about 
the natio/ial parks 
—what they repre¬ 
sent, what they 
hold and the edu¬ 
cational opportu¬ 
nities that they of¬ 
fer. Efforts are 
to be made—and 
in the case of one 
or two institutions 
have been made— 
to induce groups 
of students under 
the care of an in¬ 
structor t o visit 
these parks and to 
travel through 
them with especial 
view t o studying 
their flora, their fauna and their physio¬ 
graphic features. Classes devoted to the 
study of botany and of the birds, the ani¬ 
mals and the geology of the different re¬ 
gions ought to be formed and if formed 
and the movement once set on foot with 
with judgment, such classes are likely to 
become enormously popular with the stu¬ 
dents of our technical schools and of our 
universities. This is a field that is un¬ 
touched as yet, but its proper cultivation 
(continued on page 617) 
distance and then discarded. It is, we be¬ 
lieve, somewhere in New England that 
there is a society for the protection of beau¬ 
tiful wild flowers and such societies ought 
to be in operation all over this continent. 
Among the flowers becoming scarce are the 
yellow lady-slipper and the yellow lily. It 
is a pity that these should be wantonly de¬ 
stroyed and it is to be hoped that a pub¬ 
lic sentiment for their preservation may 
be aroused before these beautiful flowers 
have vanished from the continent. 
