The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1922-12-20
KILL 10000 MOOSE A YEAR
In Spite Of The Toll in Canada's For
ests, Supply Remains Normal.

Countless sportsmen have renewed
their mountaineering with the Cana
dan northern woods in the quest OF
moose this season, and have found
good moose-hunting in every province
OF the Dominion. A hunter IS guaran,
teed at least one moose in these days
Of excellent guides and every conyen
fence that the Dominion can offer.
Sportsmen, trappers and nature low
crs in various parts Of Canada have
gone into the business OF being hosts
to visiting hunters. Headquarters are
estaDished IN the woods from which
hunting parties set out, some OF the
more elaborate Of which in equipment
and conyenienccs, leave little to be dc
sired In com parisOn with modern ho-
tells. These men make ii their bust
ness to know the moose grounds and
are also prepared TO equip expedi
tons. There are staffs of guides avail
able who panule, cook, and perform
all the laboriCus tasks and as h final
undertaking lure the monarch OF the
woods from his haunts. There is no
undue hardship entailed upon visitors
today. All that is expected OF the hun
ter, II he really wants the animal, is
to shoot straight. It IS hunting de
luxe.
The Canadian game laws permit
hunters. visiting and resident. to kill
one bull moose and one buck deer
ttwo deer in certain provincesl after
the opening of the season. Cows are
protected, and naturally 1t is not per
mitted TO kill calves. Though the
toll OF the woods. al this rate, is fair
~ heavy at present the extent of the
forest Businesses ensures their being
vel stocked, and Canada can witness
the increase In visiting hunters to her
domain each year without apprehen
sion for some time As long as the
strict same laws enacted are rigidly
enforced ANA forest fires vigorously
guarded against, the lordly moose will
maintain supremacy over his wild
kingdom. safe in intelligent superyis
ion and preservation.
By no means is the movement oil
hunters from the United States acros.
the Vorder new one, states bulle
tin OF the CANADIAN Pacific Railway
Tor they have beeli4 coming to favor
1 tie woods in New Brunswick. Nova
Scotia and other provinces for TWEEN
ty-iive and thirty years. II has beer
estimated that there are only 7,00t
moose left in the entire United States
Herein lies the reason why in recen
years 40 many big-gamc hunters from
across the line have como up over tn,
border, and why the traffic of sports
men from she Republic each year ex
hibit5 substantial increment. Hun
ters camps aud lodges in the fores
have all the appearance OF permanen
establishments, ard residents come {,
look for their return every year whei
the mating season OF the moose come,
around. The northern woods have
subtle magic all their own, and sci
dom relinquish their hold upon an,
man once they have placed their lurl
upon him
Roughly. about 10000 moose ar,
killed in the Dominion each year o
these It should be safe to attribut,
cne'half to visiting hunters. Thi
seems a heavy slaughter, but. far From
there being any danger OF exhaustion
from this toll, authorities In difieren
sections OF the country are Of tn
opinion that a killing OF twice this "a
tent might be made each year an,
the natural incrc ase deumt,fy offs. l..
any tendency to tho extinction of tn
mofarCn OF Canadian fauna