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Show ONLY SCARS REMAIN. ' TACOMA, Wash.. July (By V. P.) Burvivora of the many thousands thou-sands of their family, which once roamed the forests of Washington and Oregon, but twenty-two arlasly bears remain, according to a cenaus of wild Ufa In the game preserves of the two states completed by the erasing department of the forest service, using reports gathered by forest rangers. Although tbe grts-sly grts-sly bears are fast disappearing, the black and brown variety are oa tbe Increase.. the report discloses. Twe thousand mountain goats and ninety nine-ty mountain sheep still roam the forests of the two ststes. while 1000 black lalL mule and Columbia white tall deer are Increasing In the preserves. pre-serves. There are nearly l.v elk In the two elates, whils the only snteiope located are In the r leach lea-ch utee and Kremont national forests for-ests of Oregon. Despite hunters-re hunters-re porta no caribou have beea discovered dis-covered In western Washington, the rangers rs ported. |