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Game Conservation in Arctic Canada

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Brian Roberts
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It is only within comparatively recent years that the problem of conserving the game resources of the Northwest Territories has become a matter requiring the serious attention of those responsible for the administration of the Territories. The slow development of a crisis arose from the lack of co-ordinated knowledge and from the assumption that a sparse human population scattered over an immense area would not necessarily lead to any serious depletion in the numbers of wild animals. Fortunately investigation was begun and a measure of control effected in time; otherwise the story of the plains buffalo might have been repeated in the barren-ground caribou, as it was to a large degree in the musk ox, which are now reduced on the mainland to a few small herds within or close to the Thelon Game Sanctuary.

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Polar Record , Volume 3 , Issue 23 , January 1942 , pp. 499 - 509
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1942

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