The Elk River Game Preserve.—­This preserve has a total area of about 450 square miles, and includes a fine tract of mountains, valleys, lakes and streams.  It contained in 1908 about 1,000 mountain goats, 200 sheep, a few elk and deer, and about 50 grizzly bears.  All these have notably increased during the period of absolute protection that they have enjoyed.  It is probable that this preserve contains more white mountain goats than any other preserve that thus far has been made.  It was in this region that Mr. John M. Phillips and Prof.  Henry Fairfield Osborne made the first mountain goat photographs ever made at close range.  It is to be hoped that the protection of this preserve, both as to its wild life and its timber, will be made perpetual.

Frazer River Preserve.—­Next after the above there was created in British Columbia a game preserve covering a large portion of the mountain territory that rises between the North and South Forks of the Fraser River.  It is about 75 miles long by 30 miles wide and contains about 2,250 square miles.  Concerning its character and wild-life population 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:  “Carrying firearms, 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 Survey, I am able to offer the following: 

LIST OF MANITOBA’S GAME PRESERVES

DUCK MOUNTAIN PRESERVE 324 sq. miles, 207,360 acres. 
RIDING MOUNTAIN PRESERVE 360 " " 230,000 "
SPRUCE WOODS PRESERVE 64 " " 40,960 "
TURTLE MOUNTAIN PRESERVE 100 " " 64,000 "

848 " " 542,320 "

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 hunting in them is prohibited!