The American natural history - a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America (1914) (14597554327)

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Title: The American natural history : a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937
Subjects: Natural history -- North America
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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bited by moose, woodland caribou, white-tailed deer andblack bear. British Columbia, inhabited by a magnificent big-gamefauna 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 whitebears. 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 LTnitedStates and Canada which still contain a remnant of biggame, but which have been literally shot to pieces bygunners. In the United States and southern Canada there are aboutfifteen localities which contain a supply of big game sufficientlylarge so that a sportsman might therein hunt and kill one headper year with a clear conscience. All others should be closedfor five years ! Here is the list of availables; and regardingit there will be about as many opinions as there are big-gamesportsmen:
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THE WILDERNP:SS of north AMERICA (SHADED) AND THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES. WELL STOCMvED WITH BIG GAME. 203 204 THE PRESENT AND FUTURE HUNTING GROUNDS 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: Fordeer. The Adirondacks, New York: Well stocked with white-tailed deer, only. Pennsylvania Mountains: Contain many deer and-blackbears, and soon will contain more. South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas:White-tailed deer, and in some the black bear and lynx. Northern Minnesota: Deer and moose. Northern Michigan and Wisconsin: White-tailed deer. Northwestern Wyoming: Thousands of elk in fall andwinter; a few deer, grizzly and black bears, but no sheepthat it would be right to kill. Western and Southwestern Montana: Elk in season, muleand white-tailed deer; no sheep that it would be right to kill. Northwestern Montana: