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- Cervus canadensis [underlined]
Banff. April 28/43 [1943]
No elk more than a mile up Carrot
Cr. [Creek] None on Mt [Mount] Norquay despite good
browse.
Kills:- 1 small 6 pt [point] bull, near railroad track
neck, incisors, + premaxillae + antler tips broken
indicating the trains as responsible for death.
Coyotes had eaten everything.
1 young animal + 1 old bull with
antlers shed - dead a year - no cause
establishable
Census:- On Tunnell 4 cows 2 calves 2 bulls.
at 9 mile 16 cow + calf
11 " 1 spike, 14 cows, 5 calves.
On Power line 10 elk.
On lower slopes of Mt [Mount] Edith (E. [east] face) 1 bull.
Total 55.
Known 18 cows, 7 calves, 4 bulls (10 spike)
April 24/43 [1943]
In Kootenay Park. Census:- Saw from
Vermilion Crossing W. [west] to hill leaving
Kootenay Vally 57 elk of which
37 [female symbol], 3 yearlings, 6 spikes + 12 uncertain.
All tracks seen were heading up the
valley but no elk were seen above the
Vermillion River on the flats of which
+ adjacent hillsides most of the elk were
seen
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