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Duck Mountain Preserve Riding Mountain Preserve Spruce Woods Preserve Turtle Mountain Preserve
324 sq. miles, 207,3(30 acres.
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about2,250squaremiles. Concerningitscharacterandwild-lifepopula- tion we have no details.
Yalakom Game Preserve.—On the north side of Bridge River (a western tributary of the Fraser), about twenty miles above Lilloet, there has been established a game preserve having an area of about 215 square miles.
Manitoba.—In the making of game preserves, Manitoba has made an excellent beginning. It is good to see from Duck Mountain in the north to Turtle Mountain in the south a chain of four liberal preserves, each one protected in unmistakable terms as follows :
arms, hunting or trapping strictly prohibited within this area."
The lake regions of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta form what is probably the most important wild-fowl breeding-ground in North America. To a great extent it rests with those provinces to say whether the central United States shall have any ducks and geese, or not ! It is high time that an international treaty should be made between the United States, Canada and Mexico for the federal protection of all migratory birds.
These preserves are of course intended to conserve wild-fowl, shore- birds, grouse and all other birds, as well as big game. Thanks to the cooperation of Mr. J. M. Macoun, of the Canadian Geological vSurvey, I am able to offer the following;
List of Manitoba's Game Preserves
Manitoba is to be congratulated on this record.
Quebec.—This province has created two huge game preserves, well worthy of the fauna that they are intended to conserve when all hunt- ing in them is prohibited
The Laurentides National Park is second in area of all the national parks of Canada, being surpassed only by the Rocky Mountains Park of British Columbia. Its area is 3565 square miles, or 2,281,600 acres. It occupies the entire central portion of the great area surrounded by Lake St. John, the Saguenay River, the wide portion of the St. Law- rence, and the St. Maurice River on the west. Its southern boundary is in several places only 16 miles from the St. Lawrence, while its most northernangleiswithin13milesofLakeSt.John. Itsgreatestwidth from east to west is 71 miles, and its greatest length from north to south is 79 miles. It covers a huge watershed in which over a dozen large rivers and many small ones have their sources. It is indeed a forest primeval. The rivers are well stocked with fish, and the big game in-
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