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Day Oct 7.
Tak a few mammals in my traps
and spent the forenoon hunting
for specimens and food. Saw a
red fox about 1/2 mile west of
the Park.
In the early part of the afternoon
the Students Bay Team arrived
from St Johns in charge of E.H.
Taylor, the post manager. He had
met George and Dan yesterday morning
and gave me a message. We had
arranged so that I can go down in
a day or two.
Mr Taylor gave me the following
confirmation regarding game animals.
Mule Deer are sometimes killed
in the nearby Nats. About 50 were killed
at once on the Nats near bend Muddy Fork in Dec. 1904.
The larger broadhead caribou has been seen
never than the mouth of
Lower Blow Lake River.
Beasts used to be found in this
Nats just west, but have been mostly
killed off.
Marmots appeared in this
High Nats near the river just above
The Portage. They are abundant about
Faurier's Pass.
He has killed a white tailed (Stornigan)
at Peace River Portage in midwinter.
Mule Sheep have been found in the
Nats a short distance north of the
Portage. 5 were thus until last
winter having been spared by the
Indians to increase, but were
drawn out of the region by wolves.
The Nats not being tough enough
to afford them security. They
are abundant in the region of the
Faurier's Pass and in some
Nats north of Clear River not
being far off from the Portage
(at the point Big Ross).
Elk have been killed just across
the river but not in recent years.
one was killed 9 years ago.
Timber wolves were very common
20 winters ago. They killed about
14 head of horses.