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Title: The conservation of the wild life of Canada
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Hewitt, Charles Gordon, 1885-1920
Subjects: Game protection Birds Game and game-birds
Publisher: New York, C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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) RESERVES IN ALBERTA AND BRITISH COLUMBIA RESERVES FOR WILD LIFE IN CANADA 253 with white spruce and jack pine. Other portions are cov-ered with poplar, and there are quite large areas of opengrazing land. This reserve appears to be well adapted to the preservation of wapiti, which were formerly found there. British Columbia Comprising as it does one of the finest big-game terri-tories on the North American continent, it is a hopeful signfor the future conservation of our big-game and wild-liferesources that the British Columbia Government, during thepast decade, has taken steps to set aside considerable tractsof undeveloped land, consisting largely of mountain andforest, as game reserves. The total area comprised in thefive provincial game reserves—exclusive of the Ashnola re-serve for mountain sheep—is nearly 2,867 square miles.These reserves, arranged according to the date of theirreservation, are as follows: Elk River Reserve.—This reserve, which was establishedin 1910, comp

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