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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo07amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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130 THE AMERICAN MUSEUM JOURNAL species were also found on islands in the lakes, where alone the ^^ ild Goose was known to nest, while some small islets were virtually covered by hosts of Gulls and Pelicans. On the prairies Lont^-billed Curlew, ^Marbled Godwits, and Bartra- raian Sandpipers or "Upland Plover" as sportsmen know them, lay their eggs. The region has well been called the nursery of wild-fowl,'as at one time were our border states to the south; but the advance of civi- lization, which first transforms a buffalo range into a cattle countrv and
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CAMP Al PTARMIGAN PASS later into a wiicat ranch, has already reached the early stages of its agri- cultural devel()j)ment about Maple Creek and the forced retreat of the wild fowl to the more remote north is only a (;uestion of time. The ('anadiaii (lovcrnmcnt would do well to set aside some of its still misettled huids as ;)erniaiieiit l)ice(Hng reservations to which year alter year tiie water-fowl could return to nest. Such reservations would be nurseries and, by permitting a bird to reproduce, would l)e of infinitely more im- portance than preserves which afford protection only during the winter.

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