Word: elk
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...president of the League of American Sportsmen, gave an illustrated lecture last evening in the Union on "Snow Slides in the Canadian Rockies." The views thrown on the screen were unusually excellent, especially those of the snow-capped peaks and glaciers of British Columbia. The illustrations of moose, elk, and caribou in their native haunts added much to an interesting discussion of the present state of game preservation on the North American continent...
...wholesale slaughter indulged in by the skin-hunters in destroying the immense herds of the middle west. In fact the establishment of the Yellowstone National Park has been the sole means of protecting many of the western animals from complete extinction. At present there are 25,000 elk in this park and very few in any other sections of the west. The antelope, one of the few strictly American animals, was at one time threatened with extinction when there were only about 200 left on the continent. The laws lately enacted for their preservation, however, have been so effective that...