Identifier: conservationoffi00canarich (find matches)
Title: Conservation of fish, birds and game
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Canada. Canada. Commission of conservation. Committee of fisheries, game and fur-bearing animals
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argement of the Park from going up into the moun-tains and getting sheep for meat when they wanted them. Taking asheep as worth $10 to $15 to a settler for meat, compare that withthe figures given you ($1,000*) as to the value of that animal, evenfrom the straight business viewpoint, when sought after by visitingsportsmen. The argument is irresistible. These people are not rascals,they simply do not realize the situation; they need education. -. ^ . As to the goat, it is in a much better state because it Mountain . , ■ , , . , , , , ... Goat Easy is not so highly prized, but, nevertheless, it is in serious *° ^ danger, particularly because it is so easy to get, once one has climbed up to where it lives. It is not as shy and crafty asthe sheep and, when the mountains are opened up, it will not survivevery long. There is only one portion of the United States where hunt-ing of the goat is permitted, namely, in Idaho and Washington, and,even there, it ought to be stopped.*See page ISO.
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Two Stoney Indians with p:ieven Heads of Big-horn Sheep PROHIBITION OF THE SALE OF G A M IC 95 The moose once ranged over the whole of our north-Among eastern woods. Now, Minnesota is the only state in Moose tiie United States where there arc enough moose to be killed, and there are not very many there. In the state of Maine,which has had perhaps the most thorough and best enforced game lawswith regard to moose of any of our states, a close season was putin effect last year, for the simple reason that there are too manyhunters. Along the southern frontier of Canada where the countryis brought under development, and where the moose once roamedin thousands, you will now seldom find enough moose to make it worthwhile to hunt them. It is worth while in New Brunswick, becausethere they have been thoroughly protected. They are scarce even inmany outlying districts as, for instance, the Peace River valley, untilrecently regarded as remote but now thrown open to settlement. In1912, the Beaver

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