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Show w PROTECTION OF GAME The biological survey of the United Unit-ed States department of agriculture estimates that during the hunting season this fall more than five million mil-lion uersons will go out with a gun into the woods and fields of America. Amer-ica. The survey declares t:hat going forth of such a vast number of hunters hunt-ers emphasizes the need of more adequate ade-quate and uniform laws to conserve and protect the country's dwindling game supply. Acocrdir.g to the report, it has been the practice in many ctates to issue hunting licenses for the open season to all applicants, with tool it- tie regard for the available game supply of any particular area. The hunters may far outnumber the animals ani-mals hunted within a given section, and under suc:h conditions the extinction extinc-tion of big game especially is inevitable. inevi-table. The department of agriculture advocates ad-vocates a limited license plan for big game, based on annual estimates of game conditions in each district. This means that the number of big game licenses Issued for a given area in one season would depend upon the number of game animals which it has been determined in advance can j be spared. Proper administration of this sort should conserve game in the greatest numbers consistent with . the reasonable demands for local grazing and other interests and obvi-' ate fjhe necessity for establishing! perennial closed seasons except on I ! area being restocked Salt Lake Tri-' ibune. j |
