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  • Journal. Radium H.S. [Hot Springs] June 19/43 [1943] Came down from Vermilion which we left at about 11 AM. Saw 3 black bear near Vermilion 1 Brown " + 2 ad [adult] cubs near Radium 1 mule deer [male symbol] at lick 1 [male symbol] + 3 [female symbol] " near Radium 5 Goat on Mt [Mount] Wardle 2 elk. Drove down to Invermere + interviewed Walter Nixon a trapper who has been trapping up the Simpson River since the winter of 1904-05 He reports a heavy autumn movement of elk down the main Simpson out of Banff Park in the autumn after the 1st [first] heavy snow. Elk winter along the Simpson in large numbers on the open, wind-blown sidehills as high as 7000'. Reports Mt. [mountain] lion as very scarce + that has seen little or no sign of coyote bothering elk. A stray deer tries to winter in there (w.t. [white-tailed]) but is almost invariably taken by coyote. Reports a decimation of the sheep at head of the Simpson at the same time as the Vermilion band was hit. Sheep used to be abundant on the west face of Quartz Mt. [Mountain] + near Citadel Pass. This bunch ranged down
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