Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-12-25 | Page 7 | Only Herd of Wild Wood Buffalo

Only Herd of Wild Wood Buffalo Tho Canadian government has set sel aside its most interesting national T park k a k as a wild life sanctuary Buffalo Burtalo Par Park Alberta will be unique as the habitat of the only herd of wild wood buffalo In existence The wood buffalo buffa buffa- lo 10 is practically the same as the plains buffalo in his habits and customs Thesa Thes buffalo mate In early September Septem Septem- ber ml migrate ate back and forth Corth by the same trails and take life lie easily at all aU times It is amazing how fast these looking clumsy animals ls can travel Even when the they are walking with grave j dignity a man must run to overtake them and when hen they are In Ina Ina Ina a hurry burry one would need a footed fleet horse to keep up with them V When hen Samuel Hearne of the Hudsons Hudson's Bay company compan first met wood buffalo south of ot Great Slave lake lale in 1772 he de described described de de- scribed them as of such an amazing strength th that they frequently brush down donn trees as thick as a mans man's arm and be the snow ever so deep such in their strength and agility that they are enabled to plunge through h It faster than the swiftest Indian can run on snowshoes