Show Replenishing Game Animals in in the e National Forest i it 1 Hi r t n- n J I i rJ yr 1 vl wr t lr rHy t H. H y r t- t x a 1 n It is l announced by bv Claude T. T Barnes BartHs president president pres pres- ident idell of the Utah Audubon society Jociel that Dr 1 liani IVi t T T. Hornaday y of New rew York Cit City will mil give a free illustrated lecture in Barratt hall hail Monday ouria September 6 at 8 p. p ai m. m on ou Shall S I We IVe I Increase rI rase c Our 0 Bi Dig y home ame on a Good Supply B Basis sis The lecture will ill appeal particularly to c sportsmen por scouts S and other lovers o of If f our mid game life and aud its conservation J. J I EA EAR h by rear car the game me laws of Utah h have ve vel Y YEAR l become come more stringent ent and still big game animals arc arc r gradually g disappearing from th their ir once conspicuous t platens haunts Vast stretches of tint unu un- un u- u e d l ground g can b by r proper methods be applied for their perpetuation tion and especially can n the national national na na- na- na l forests be he utilized as vast game preserves Th The pro problem of bringing the game back has been found to be c a big hig one but as is evident from the c experience of oi other states not an insuperable one Fighters J J. J for wild gild life such as Dr Hornaday and G G. O. O Shields are arc spending every ery e effort towards the solution of the intricate questions that arise arise in game ganic conservation and it is is now toil believed that soon the broad stretches of almost arid Utah lauds will ull he be filled with deer and other attractive specie The Th article Smith forester forester for for- following by Riley or- or c ester of Denver er Colo is said by hy Utah enthusiasts enthusiasts enthusiasts en en- to be a good exposition of how some of the problems of restocking western wil wilds s with native c an animal m l life arc being met successfully INTEREST IN PRESERVING WILD LIFE INCREASES VENT in the face of a cruel war abroad an and E EVEN EVE great national unrest and anxiety at home the preservation and md increase of our national wild wildlife wildlife wildlife life must go on To permit any serious neglect of the latter hitter t cause ois' ois would c be equivalent to going out ont to meet greet hal half f wa way one of the evil consequences of war Of course the time may come within the next five fhe years cars or less when what every ery male defender de de- defender fender of wild life will be bc needed on another kind of f firing ring line but sufficient unto that day will be bethe bethe bethe the evil thereof At t this hour the cause canse of wild life protection protection protection tion in the United States Stats is moving forward with constantly accelerating speed The splendid momentum momentum mo mo- that this cause has acquired is a constant inspiration and encouragement to those who toil in that particular vineyard Even the backward states which represent the spots plague-spots on the wild life map show signs of awakening conscience conscience conscience con con- science and a desire to be decent In June of the present t year year the IlI Illinois nois legislature at last stopped the sale of wild game and established limits bag-limits that constitute a fair beginning in that line That she stood fast in favor of the spring shooting hooting g of waterfowl is a a source of regret but at the thc same time she got in line with the federal federal federal fed fed- eral migratory law law- reg regarding shore birds Ohio came very near r to clearing her bad record but the farmer farmer- hogs game were too strong for the sportsmen In these troubled days the protectors of wild wildlife wildlife wildlife life need public sympathy and encouragement more than in ih piping times of peace Today the public mind is in an undeclared state of war but the killers of game are killing just as diligently as ever Even Eyen though the next session of Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress will have to deal with some very ery y serious national measures such as the national defenses revenue the repeal of the foolish shipping act and Mexico f ico there will be ample time to consider and to ami to pass a sane and businesslike b bill n to conver convert convert con con- ver vert a hundred or more areas of or waste lands into big sanctuaries for the s sake ke of deriving front from th those se now V profitless lands a great annual food foda supply only question is Will Vill the American people ople le handle handte this matter in a r resolute solute and businesslike busi busi- nes like wa wa way or will General Gener l Suspicion ion defeat the plan DEFINITE POLICY URGED ON GOVERNMENT W. W WHAT ll MAT T should be the federal governments government's policy governing the protection and devel devel- development of f game same in the national forests f This his qu question tion has been asked many y times of late truly So tn l do a large number o of western pc people co pl le feel fed that all the game go that drat they icy y look u upon on thc f or cement of effective game laws as a Needless needless need Need- less expense to lo the state Owing p p wing to o the obligations that the fe federal cral government assumes in the thc establishment and the mai maintenance lt n nce of these national for forests it must o outline and operate under a definite cut clear cut game policy policy LARGE LARGE AREAS WORTHLESS FOR TOR DOMESTIC STOCK ri Till T l-T IE ERE E is Ita hardly a of the J. J oo acres of national oual forest lands lauds but what olt fifth one I to 10 one thud d is suitable tal only for game b by bJ this of this vast ast acreage ae at dt atlea lea t one fifth to fo o l third one rd cannot now and aud can never be 1 used sed d by Domestic steel This of course does does' not take i into t tto consideration n the a large areas now l inaccessible that at will eventual eventually be used for forstock stock grazing zing To To my mind the fact that hat deer were fairly fairly pl plentiful l in the Uintah h forest of Utah tah durin during dur- dur in ing those c v years years cars when the ranges were so heavily I J I n ff F k kA A t t v t 11 1 i r y r y y r 4 7 t oM o f t J. J f 1 1 1 L bl t. t t 1 i 0 u l ii d if aSTi Na vla 1 uL v i illi w t I to stocked with sheep that the animals came off the range in the fall faU poor the existence of elk on the south fork of Rio Grande in the Rio Grande forest of Colorado in the very heart of a range section that the cattle and sheep men fought over before the forest was created is ample proof there i is room for fOT the the game as well vell as the domestic stock DOMESTIC STOCK INTERESTS PROTECTED T HAS been gravely pointed out that the federal federal federal fed fed- IT eral government should go slow in this matter because it would never do to adopt a policy detrimental detrimental detrimental detri detri- mental to the stockman's interests There are arc in every community a thousand and one champions for domestic stock so we can rest assured that the sheep and the cow and the horse will be placed up upon n every acre where an any one of them will thrive c in fact the people of the west are commencing commencing com com- to believe that they may see sec both sheep and cattle upon the same area in spite of the theman man many bitter struggles of the past that would tend to show this impossible I If f game is to hold its own against domestic stock it must have the biggest biggest biggest big big- gest champion to be had the had the federal govern govern- ment uncut The line to be drawn b between the game and domestic stock is is not hard to define The sentimental sentimental sentimental sen sen- side of the question can be eliminated as far as the national forests arc concerned and we should look at the matter entirely from a practical practical practical dollar cents basis In other words here is an area not now grazed by stock It will be a matter of eight or twelve years jears rears before it will come into use if at all Vb i y not have game here until domestic stock needs the range Here is an area where more than 50 per cent of the land is so rough and broken as to be unfit for domestic stock and the remaining 50 per cent is so located that the available stock wilt will have to be driven long distances to the areas so far in fact that all the profit will be lost in this drive Vh Why not have game here Here is a region surrounding an anarea anarea anarea area intensely used for recreation as a summer re resort ort or it is the watershed of some stream from which a town or village derives its water supply It is not advisable to graze stock tock on such lands first lands first because the people pr protest test against it and second there is a chance of stream pollution Why not have ha game here Here is an area where there is a very small per cent not suited to domestic stock and yet suited suited to game also a portion of the stock range must act as winter range for the g game me developed upon the smaller area Would it not be advisable to protect and cultivate ate game upon the smaller areas and so allot your jour stock upon the larger area to provide winter feed for the game and thereby y get a more complete use of all of the land laud In most cases the amount of growth necessary to leave to perpetuate perpetuate per per- your forage values would furnish winter feed for the game Here lIere again is a range where there is a large amount of forage and browse growth and even when the areas are fully stocked with c cattle or sheep or even cven sheep and cattle there are arc both forage plants and browse brush that the domestic stock do not cat and game animals will vill eat cat at these plants and thrive c among your domestic stock Why Thy not protect the game and cultivate it here INVESTMENT PAYS BIG RETURNS T THE HE question is asked Will TilI it pay to protect JL and md develop game in the national forests My y answer to this is that it will pay and pa pay y big bg b i g in interest in- in terest t on the time and money put into it There is not a state stat today that has put money into game protection but has received big interest on oui the in in- in vestment It will pay on a dollar-and-cents dollar basis just as big g returns as any y stock business and the value of such game protection to the citizens of the state and nation will be beyond a money val value e. What man among you has not felt after a long grind at any kind of work the keen pleasure of preparing for a trip in the open It matters not whether you oU are arc a hunter The wildlife wild wildlife wildlife life is a part of the open and its presence there will add many fold to its attractiveness With what keen joy docs does the individual returning to his work from such a trip in the open tell ten of the game he lu has bagged the wild life he has taken pictures of or just observed 46 r a y taNi Ga r ri k sz a J A Arr rr 4 RECREATION VALUE OF or GAME LARGE R HORNADAY has said The great value DR of the game me birds of America lies not in their meat pleat pounds as they lie lic upon the table but in the temptation they y annually put before millions of weary field r farmers and weary desk clerks and amI merchants to get into their beloved belove hunting togs stalk out into the thc lap of nature and say dull care card l' l And a man who has h had d a day in the painted woods on the bright waters vaters of a duck- duck haunted bay or in the golden stubble of September Septem Septem- ber her can fill his day pay and his soul with six good birds just as well welt as he can with sixty And so it itis is with the game gunc a animals This last summer I was with a a party rt for several days in inthe inthe inthe the mountains of f Colorado just above Grand lake take The real excitement of the trip that caused the greatest thought and the biggest topic of conversation conversation conversation conver conver- was the day y we came around a point of rocks to sec see below us on a long sweeping slope of bald land four horn big sheep stall standing illg out like so many sentinels of that life tife amid the surroundings surroundings sur stir which stirred our very souls Within the last two years the state slate of Wyoming Wyoming Wyo Wyo- ming has received from to from the sale of game licenses and the cost cost of of administering administering adminis adminis- the game d department has been about half that amount The purchase of residence licenses at and the license at 50 each is of course course coure a small portion of the mone money f actual actually r spent in the hunting region I It t has been found that parties going out in the immediate neighborhood neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood for deer would average from 30 to 36 each while in the more attractive c game big-game sections sections sec sec- sections nonresident parties amounting to from I t to yearly would spend from to each The state of Wyoming oming has a law prohibiting the leaving in the woods the thc meat of elk and deer killed This law brings into the communities of the game regions large lame amounts of meat each year In one year the meat great brought out of the thc woods at Cody Cods alone and valued at a nominal I sum per pound reached a sum gi greater cater than that derived from front the sale of all game licenses for the year lear ear a REPLANTING ELK IN COLORADO FORESTS A AS SMALL number of elk were were shipp shipped d into the Estes park district of the Colorado national forest at the expense of the people of Estes park the biological SUf C survey the thc Burlington railroad and und the forest service These elk were to be seen in one corner of the thc park and last season the money moncy paid by b guests for teams and saddle horses to tomake tomake tomake make the trip p to see sec these elk was a suni above the cost of placing them in the park so it can an anbe be proven beyond a doubt that game culture b by bythe the state and ami the fc federal eral government can be made t tto to pay in the boldest i sense of the word r I STATE BENEFITS BY SUCH PROTECTION NOT N T long ago agop a member of the fore sf service ser said Mid to me are Your argument about the value of game is good but you OU have not shown in ina a single case that the forest service d derives rives a cent all the money or benefit goes goes to the thc state or communities com cont- of the game rc region ion while you ou are arc spendin spend- spend i in money f for r these game game plants and you are aregi gi giving gl ung the rangers' rangers time which means more more- money to assist in the enforcement of the law There is a protection forest in Colorado upon the watersheds of streams the flow from which has very hilt high hi h hY A Y r Jy fe f fv wt- wt S 'S A tf V V KS A f f K H a. a S f ry Ada Aday y 4 z y l S a I A AM Ar M r iy y rr Ir ALaJ e 1 i VIEWS of interest to the tho advocate o ot of game conservation on Above o at rj right ht game slaughter in Texas The Permanent Wild Animal Protection Protection Protection tion Fund assorts asserts that at present Te Texas as is is a shambles shambles sham sham- bles bias for in indiscriminate slaughter of wild game The hut butchery chery now going on un is disgusting it comments A goo good game g-ame me b bill 11 was introduced in t the c last ost legislature but hut an ignorant and reckless reckless reck reck- less majority treated it as os a joke At present Texas is iR one of the benighted states and her once onro fine stock of game is is being annihilated annihilated- with the help lp of automatic pump guns dogs and automobiles Above at right is seen by contrast the effect of f absolute protection of ducks in tho the Wichita Okla Oka National game gamo preserve C The photograph was taken four years after protection protection protection tion was established Below at left eft is is a n. sa sago o grouse gronso of which the authority rioted quoted above e says |