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Show J PLAN TO CONSERVE GAME OF NORTH AMERICA IS DEVELOPED I if fcjfi tjS vtf l PROMOTER WILL LECTURE IN SALT LAKE CITY NEXT MONTH NnniLn011 n?h SUIT vm F "OML FOK BIG GAR1F One fifth of the territory embraced In the national forests shown on the map (170 000 000 1 acres) U bdlev ed to be suitable for big same No 1-Lnv game laws in Texas make possible the indiscriminate killing of big game No 2-A herd of protected lld elk in the Jackson Hole country No 3-Wld bheep in Colorado protected by state hws 5 Financiers Contribute to Fund to Protect Animals and Birds. HOPE for the permanent restock ng of I tail s broad came neld is now encouraging those mo. t interested is the problem, I ui especially organizations such as 3 tTtas Andabon society wbeh is 3 atesdinz everv effort toward protee f, of w Id game life. Nationally, ijf almost internationally one might a the bu den of came conservation is rem bo e ov such wealthy enthu Ana as . iuael Sage and Henrv rtrd and h educators as Dr Wil jsT Hs v3 and G O Shields, jt Claude T Ba es, president of the rtah Audubon o etv announced yes S' tiiw that D Will am T Hornaday 1 New To k Citv will five a free J trated ecture in Barratt hall on I iondav evening September 6 on i Shall We Increase Our B e Game on I I Hood Snpplv Basis f The lecture I us been espec allv prepared for sports a jn and for members or the bov scoots ap weH as for the general public wh eh I is been invited to attend Jew states have so much unused 5 uis as has Utah, lands that are well anted for the nse of deer and other -fld animal species but wh eh are umted for domestic purposes. How asr it would be to bring back onr . old game from its state, ot mm nent ibnetion is evident from the expert ice of sportsmen in British Columbia. iame Is Increased. 3 la 1908 following a memorable uting exploration in the Elk Biver oEntry, East Kootenay district, British Arabia, John M. Phillips and Wil - '.tm T Hornaday besought the. gov r rcment and people of British Colum t a to make that region a game pre rre. In it goats were plentiful sheep could be found bv hard hunting one elk was seen in th rtv da s but moose sere totallv absent In 1908 the Elk r ver game reserve was created and . ampbell I Lew n was appointed its game warden Of course all hunting in that r n of 550 square miles! ceased at hu time A reeent request from D Hornada to Warden Lewis for a statement of game ond t ons at this t me in the Elk river game preserve el c ted a report, re-port, ot which the following is part lour request for data on the East Kootenav game preserve comes at an opportune moment. I have just fin used a partial patrol of its boundaries, and while I was well aware of a ma tenal increase of the wild things with in i s eonf aes, in my wildest dreams I could ne er ha e imagined game so p ent ful as it s at the 1 resent time on that game pres-rve Animals Not Afraid On our first day out and please note we were not hunting or taking any pains to conceal our presence we saw twenty goats five sheep and one black bear No account was kept of feathered game of whi h we saw a goodlv number chiefly sooty grouse The other f e days we were out we saw game proportionate to that sighted on the first day of our journev uclnd ing six elk (wapiti) and one lare gnzzl bear To gi e you some sb6ht idea of the spread of the elk over the East Kootenav Koo-tenav region I may mention the fact of those animals having been seen on Sheep creek a few miles north of Fort1 Steele They have even been seen as far south as Bock creek three m les west of the village of Elko Bull river Fording nver and east fork of Wh te river all have their quota of this splen did game As a fnend of mine recently remarked on visiting the upper Fordmz nver the vallev conn rv has no trails but elk trails and these cut up the vallev so that it reminds one more of a plowed field than anything else. Moose have aga n made their appearance ap-pearance in the Elk nver valley and are wintering there in small bands of two or three. Last summer a cow dropped two calves n the imtv of t P K headq arters abo t fo t n les north of Mtcbel Ou le a nu or spend the greater pan of the sun uer on the b g meadows of the west fork of the Elk nver Speaking of the west fork reminds me that a large number of sheen have found their way into the west lork basin. Formerly this country was con sidered devo d of animal life but reeent re-eent investigation has proved the con trary Goats abound, sheep are fairl plentiful while moose have evidently filed their pre eruption records The moose in this b t of eountrv came in from the head of the Pal' ser nvea, through a pass that I dio ered while making recent investigations in that part of the district It may interest on to learn that pin tailed grouse are here to sts 8ince the logging off of the forest lands in the southern portion of Fernie district and the subsequent forest fires that from time to time have swept the logged off areas pin ta led grouse have found an excellent harborage in the tall grass and oung undergrowth that has sprung up in the wake of the fires Thev are now present in large numbers Deer Change Habits Since we are on the subject of logged off areas I may as well introduce the subject of the Virginia deer Grave forebodings filled the minds of many of our sportsmen that the cutt ng of timber and the consequent restrict on of the range of the white ta led deer would prove d sastrous to the latter Such a contention while perhaps the oretically correct is nof borne out by the facts. Much of the deer range has been cut and burned awav it is true but it cannot be ea d that the white ta led deer is in any mmediate danger of ext ncr on Close observa tion of this spec es of game has forced me to the conclus on that the deer are gradually adapt ng themselves to a new habitat Where formerly they descended in hundreds to the lower lev els to winter I now f nd them living through the winter months in the high fir forests on the ground that from its natural inaccess bil ty cannot be logged for many geuerat ons They are hard er to get without doubt but they are there n myriads if one is man enough to hunt them Practically the same thing may be sa d of the mule deer Where they wintered years ago in large numbers they are now consp cuous by their ab 6ence But for all that they have not all been killed off nor have they left the country They have s mply chosen for the r wintering places the more so lated hillsides where the pot hunter through lack of funds or poss ble en ergy cannot or will not go Perpetual Preservation Dunug the past two years W T Hornaday has been labor ng at a task that appeals to the maginat on It s nothing less than the b Id ng of a great perpetual mot on mach ne for the pres ervation and increase of wild life throughout the next 200 years or more The permanent w Id I f e protect on fund is all that its name impi es Its foundations have been well and truly laid and ts ncome w 11 carry on the work of ts or ginator longafter he has become dust and ashes Happy s the protect on et who con leave beh nd him such a legacy to the harr od and persecuted beasts and birds, Two years ago Mr Hornaday dee ded to make an effort to place h s camna gn work on an absolutely permanent f nan c al bas s Th s was pons ble only through an endowment fund Bafely n vested and y eld ng an income of Vie tween $5000 and $6000 a year The plan provides that the pr nc pal sum which is to be not less than $100 000 1 shall be managed and in est bv two bank ng tr stees w) le the annual in o e la expendable b a cau i a truing trustee at his discretion along ortain spec f ed lines Many Are Interested It s a fa or te saying among sports mou that Nobody but the bportsmen of our count v take anj interest n the protect on of w Id life but the list of subscrbers to this rather ants ng fund tends to 1 sp o e that statement Of the J SO ttou alrcad subscribed not more than 10 per cent I as come from sportsmen This permanent fund already is the second largest endowment fund n ex istence for the benefit of wild life The lines on wh ch it will work are briefly as follows To atop the Bale of game and all late winter and spr ng shooting to stop the kill sg of insect 1 lvorous birds for food and of all birds for millinery purposes to ncrease the number of game preserves to make perpetual close seasons for all species threatened with extinction to stop the use of automatic and pump guns in hunting, and to prevent al ens from using rifles and shotguns in banting Salt Lake Included The work of the permanent fund will cover not only the United States but all North America and upon urg ent occas ons it will even lend a hand abroad. Its purpose is to ad causes that are judiciously planned and man aged and are 1 kely to secure reBults of pract cal benefit to wild life The first great cause which th s fund has inaugurated a the plan for the enact ment of a federal law for the creation of a great number of wild life sane tuaries in nat onal forests and along with that the development of a great new annual food supply of legit mate game. The plan has received inform ally the adv ce and f nally the ap proval of the off cers of the United States forest service and biological survey who will have most to do with carrying it into pract cal effect It is now to be submitted by Dr Horna day in person to the lead ng bus ness men Bportsmen and fr ends of wild 1 fe throughout the region westward of the great plains w th a call for the r sup port To th s end he will make ad dresses -dur ng September and a part of October, in Minneapol s Denver Cheyenne. Salt Lake C ty Pocatello Helena, Seattle Portland, an Fran Cisco 1 06 Angeles Pasadena Tucson and Alb querque A bill for an enabling act will be in troduced in congress early n Decern ber |
