Today in the vast Canadian wilderness, some Indians and Inuit continue to make their living by fur trapping. Fox, raccoon, coyote, and lynx are important furs taken in the wild. Mink are raised on fur farms in almost every province. The remote, unsettled areas of Canada, as the parks and wildlife, elk, moose, deer, and black and grizzly bears in the huge parks are unconcerned about visitors. Bighorn sheep, standing guard on mountain crags, gaze down with mild curiosity on passing trains and automobiles.
Beavers lead their busy lives along woodland streams.
Foxes and wolves make their dens in the deep forests. Coyotes, gophers, and many kinds of caribou and reindeer graze on the carpets of lichen and moss that are scattered over the icy north-lands. Buffalo, which once ranged the prairies by the hundreds of thousands, are now protected in Wood Buffalo National Park, in Alberta, and the northwest Territories. Polar bears raise their young on the ice-packed Northern coasts and seals and walruses share the Arctic waters.