DCHP-3

game preserve

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large tract of land and forest set aside by the government for the protection of wildlife.

Quotations

1915
. . . the Forestry Branch of the Dept. of the Interior . . . has delineated four proposed game preserves. . . .
1955
This was, in fact, the provincial boundary, being used only by hunting parties in the late summer and autumn, as there was no game reserve in that part of B.C.
1965
Other economic use could be made of the land, for example, or parks and game preserves. . . .