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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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