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The Decreasing: MooseSeldom Find Enough of Them to Make Hunting Worth WhileThe moose once ranged over the whole of our northeastern woods. Now, Minnesota is the only state in the United States where there arc enough moose to be killed, and there arc not very many there. In thestate of Maine, which has had perhaps the most thorough and best enforced game laws with regard to moose of any state, a closed reason was put in effect in 1915, for thesimple reason that there arc toomany hunters. Along the southern frontier of Canada where the country is brought under development, and where the moose once roamed in thousands, you will now seldom find enough moose make it worth find enough moose lo make it worth1 while in New Brunswick, because there they have • been thoroughlyprotected.They arc scarce even in many outlying districts as, for instance, tlie Peace Kivci valley. Until icrcntly regarded as remote but now thrown open to settlement. In 1912, the Beaver Indians were half starved, because they could not get enough meat to keep them alive, and one band oft Indians travelled 150 miles up the Laird river to hunt moose. Yet a sportsman’s magazine printed a communication entitled, “Game in the Peace River Country Unlimited,’' which drew a glowing picture of moose, deer and antelope roaming thr woods in countless numbers. Where did the writer ever see an antelope roaming the woods? .It shows that people do not realize the peril confronting our animals.— L*\ 1\.Yrrclaud in T-’islt. Birds and Game,’ published by the Commission of Conservation.
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Munson Mail
Munson, Alberta, CA
Thu, Jan 17, 1918
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