WOLVES TAKE TOLL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 29 July 1929, Page 2

WOLVES TAKE TOLL

BUFFALO RESERVE RAIDED VANCOUVER, 12th. June. Wolves are taking a heavier toll of buffalo from the Slave Lake Reserve than Indians or disease, states J. G. D’Aoust, former warden in the reserve, who has just reached Edmonton’ from the north and is outfitting for a trapping trip into the hinterlands; says the Vancouver “Daily Province.”* There is one pack of wolves in the park, between ten and fifteen in number, which kills upwards of a hundred buffalo each year, despite the efforts of the ten guardians who are continually hunting the grey killers. D’Aoust was stationed on Slave River, thirty-five miles north of Chipewyan, and patrolled a line sixty-five miles in length. In this section alope, he found tlie remains of eleven buffalo that, had been killed by timber wolves during the past winter. The animals killed ranged from yearlings to three-year-olds. Although upwards of 10,000 buffalo have been shipped into the reserve by the Government-, D’Aoust' declares that at the most there are not over 5000 animals there now, including the original herd of 1500 wood buffalo. He estimates that 75 per cent, of the yearlings shipped in have died from injuries received in transit and the foes they had to face on being freed.