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Show Urges Protection Wild Game In his address before a fair-sized audience at Barratr hall Salt Lake, Dr. William J. Hornaday, director of the Zoological park of New York City, who is touring the west in the interests of a movement seeking the establishment through federal law of 100 sanctuaries for wild game, de-dared de-dared that Utah could do what Vermont Ver-mont has done in increasing its herds of wild deer if the people but indicated indi-cated that such a thing was desired Dr. Hornada, alter telling of how Vermont had imported thirteen white tail deer, and through protection I lie flock had increased to thousand and will not. Our plan calls for the establishment of these sand italics in those portions of the national forest which are unsuited to the purposes of domestic animals, but which arc Ideal spots for the breeding of wild game such as (ik and deer. There are 180,000,000 acres in our nation-jal nation-jal forest and of this amount from one-fifth to one-third is waste land and cannot be utilized by domestic animals but which are the best kinds 'of country for elk and deer. ! Up To the People To Act 'If I felt that the peo-de of the west did not want the e t :i Idishmc-nt of these sanctuaries through federal legislation. I would drop i!ie whole-matter whole-matter right now, but in oilier states I have visite 1 there has been a strong sentiment c presM-i in favor of such a movement. It is up to you people peo-ple if you want ihr-;n and It is my firm belief that if the people of the west s.iy they want this done. Congress Con-gress at its ne:t torsion will provide pro-vide these sanctuaries. "And it should be done. We have been so busv in the recent yeans in wfthin twenty years, said: "The jdc-er herds of Utah can be similarly increased. Only the legal machincrv i I properly administered is necessary Jand it is to this end that we are : working in lliis campaign for the 'establishment of 100 sanctuaries for I wild game. ; " Should Establish Sanct uaiies "We do not intend In this movement move-ment to infringe in any way on 1be lands of the west which are suitable 'for the grazing of domestic stock. To interfere in any way with the 'operation of tho cat lie and sheep in-i in-i idustry is the tiling farthest from our 'minds. We don't want to do that 'building up our industries and business busi-ness that we have ghen too little attention at-tention to tho rights of wild life. It lis not. right. It is not. justice to our children and our hildreu's children, ftr no man has the right to squaii-jder squaii-jder the heritage of Ills children, and ' that is what we sire doing in the slaughtering of our wild game and making no provision whatever for building It up. "We received this wild life from nature and we should not destroy it entire-'.y, for man with all his knowledge cannot produce- a single new. species Once a species of animal ani-mal or bird is gone, it is gone forever. It Is extinct and man cannot bring 11 hack. This Is a crime and it is tho duty of every father to ask himself what he is doing to keep up wild life for his children. We must stop this awful slaughter of wild life and be Careful of what there Is left, a piti-fi piti-fi remnant of what formerly existed, exist-ed, and do all in our power to re-jp'ci.ish re-jp'ci.ish th forests and plains with w ild life." |
