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270 OUR VANISHING WILD LIFE
The big game of Alaska can not long endure against a "limit" of two moose, three mountain sheep, three caribou and six deer per year, per man. At that rate the moose and sheep soon will disappear. The limit should be one moose, two sheep, two caribou and four deer,—unless wearewillingtodedicatetheAlaskanbiggametoCommercialism. No sportsman needs a larger bag than the revised schedule ; and commercial- ists should not be allowed to kill big game anywhere, at any time.
Let us bear in mind the fact that Alaska is being throughly "opened up"totheManwithaGun. Hereisthelatestevidence,fromthenew circular of an outfitter
" I will have plenty of good horses, and good, competent and courteous guides;alsoothercampattendantsifdesired. Myintentionistoestab- lish permanently at that point, as I believe it is the gateway to the finest and about the last of the great game countries of North America."
The road is open; the pack-train is ready; the guides are waiting. Go on and slay the Remnant
Arizona:
The band-tailed pigeons and all non-game birds should immediately be given pro" tection; and a salaried warden system should be established under a Commissioner whose term is not less than four years.
The use of automatic and pump guns, in hunting, should be prohibited. Spring shooting should be prohibited.
Arizona has good reason to be proud of her up-to-date position in the ranks of the best game-protecting states. No other state or territory of her age ever has made so good a showing of protective laws. The enactment of laws to cover the points mentioned above would leave littletobedesiredinArizona. Thatstatehasabirdfaunawellworth protecting, and game wardens are extremely necessary.
Arkansas :
The enforcement of game laws should be placed in charge of a salaried commissioner. Spring shooting of wildfowl should be stopped at once.
A reasonable close season should be provided for water fowl, and swans should be
protected throughout the year.
A bag-limit law should be enacted.
A force of game wardens, salaried and unsalaried, should at once be created.
The killing of female deer and the hounding of deer, should be stopped.
No buck deer should be shot, unless horns three inches long are seen before firing. A hunter's license law is necessary; and the fees should go to the support of the
game protection department.
The local exemptions in favor of market hunters in Mississippi county should be
repealed.
It appears that in Arkansas the laws for the protection and increase ofwildlifearebynomeansuptothemark. Atthismoment,Arkansas is next to Florida, the rearmost of all our states in wild-life protection. Awake. Arkansas! Consider the peril that threatens }'our faima. The