Three of the prizes set new world records: a polar bear taken off Point Hope, Alaska by Tom F. Bolack of New Mexico; a white -
tail deer shot in his home state by John A. Breen of Minnesota; and a mule
deer with a mysterious past — it was discovered in a saloon by a Wyoming taxidermist, history and
hunter forgotten.
Beginning in the 1920s and continuing well into the 1970s, the government of British Columbia undertook several hunting, trapping and poisoning campaigns to remove all wolves from Vancouver Island so sport
hunters would find it easier to hunt and kill black -
tailed deer, the wolves» principal source of food.