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THE PRESENT AND FUTURE OF BIG GAME 157
can and surely will quickly wipe out their big game; for throughout nine- tenths of those areas it holds to life by very slender threads.
To-day the unopened and undestroyed wilderness areas of North America, wherein large mammals still live in a normal wild state, are in general as follows
The Arctic Barren Grounds, or Arctic Prairies, north of the limit of tre-'^, embracing the Barren Grounds of northern Canada, the great arcti. archipelago, Ellesmere, Melville and Grant Lands and Greenland. This region is the home of the musk-ox and three species of arctic caribou.
The Alaska-Yukon Region, inhabited by the moose, white motmtain sheep, mountain goat, four species of caribou, and half a dozen species of Alaska brown, grizzly and black bears.
Northern Ontario, Quebec, Labrador and Newfoundland, inhabited by moose, woodland caribou, white-tailed deer and black bear.
British Columbia, inhabited by a magnificent big-game fauna embracing the moose, elk, caribou of two species, white sheep, black sheep, big-horn sheep, mule deer, white-tailed deer, mountain goat, grizzly, black and inland white bears.
The Sierra Madre of Mexico, containing jaguar, puma, grizzly and black bears, mule deer, white-tailed deer, antelope, mountain sheep and peccaries.
I have necessarily omitted all those regions of the United States and Canada that still contain a remnant of big game, but have been literally "shot to pieces" by gunners.
In the United States and southern Canada there are about fifteen localities which contain a supply of big game sufficient that a conscien- tious sportsman might therein hunt and kill one head per year with a clear conscience. All others should be closed for five years! Here is the. list of availables ; and regarding it there will be about as many opinions as there are big-game sportsmen
HUNTING GROUNDS IN AND NEAR THE UNITED STATES AND SOUTHERN CANADA WHEREIN IT IS RIGHT TO
HUNT BIG GAME
The Maine Woods: Well stocked with white-tailed deer.
New Brunswick: Well stocked with moose; a few caribou, deer and black bear.
White Mountains of New Hampshire and Vermont: For deer.
The Adirondacks, New York : Well stocked with white-tailed deer, only.
PennsylvaniaMountains: Containmanydeerandblackbears, and soon will contain more.
Northern Minnesota: Deer and moose. NorthernMichiganandWisconsin: White-taileddeer.