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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2111915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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178 AMERICAN FORESTRY
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G. N. Brown, Government Trapper. BROWN WORKS ON THE GALLATIN NATIONAL FOREST, MONTANA AND THE PELTS ARE ONLY A FEW OF THOSE WHICH HE HAS ACQUIRED. that, when thus protected mside the Park, the wild life overflows into adja- cent territory. All true sportsmen realize that, if there are to be any game animals to hunt, provision must be made for the game to breed. Support of measures look- ing to the preservation and increase of game comes from three sources. Those who profit directly or indirectly from the expenditures of sportsmen must, if they have reasonable foresight, wish to keep the goose of the golden eggs alive, and laying well. There is now an in- creasing number of people who wish game preserved not to be hunted but in order that it may flourish undis- turbed in its native haunts. Between those who are actuated by this purpose and those who belong to the third class—that is, those who wish game to be abundant that they may find good sport—there is of course an irreconcil- able conflict of motive; but for practical ends they can consistently join forces up to a certain point. Though they may anathematize each other as senti- mentalists or as butchers, both must welcome restrictions upon indiscriminate killing. Further, in the case of big game at least it is hard to see how to escape the conclusion that in the long run some way must be found to utilize or dispose of the surplus production, w^hich, as the Yellowstone Park illus- trates, in the end overflows from a district w^here all hunting is prohibited. The game preserve or refuge supple- ments the restrictions supplied by closed seasons, limits of bag, and similar game laAv provisions, and is already an important feature of National Forest game preservation. Undoubtedly more refuges will be created. Sports- men and nature-lovers may well work together to secure their increase. Were the killing of all forms of wild life on these refuges prohibited, they would be vigorously and properly op- posed by stockmen and settlers who would suffer from the multiplication of noxious animals in them. Both for

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