I think that it is now time for California, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Wyoming to give grizzly bears protection of some sort. Possibly the situation in those states calls for a five-year close season. Even British Columbia should now place a bag limit on this species. This has seemed clear to me ever since two of my friends killed (in the spring of 1912) _six_ grizzlies in one week! But Provincial Game Warden A. Bryan Williams says that at present it would be impossible to impose a bag limit of one per year on the grizzlies of British Columbia; and Mr. Williams is a sincere game-protector. THE BROWN BEARS OF ALASKA.--These magnificent monsters present a perplexing problem, which I am inclined to believe can be satisfactorily solved by the Biological Survey only in short periods, say of three or four years each. Naturally, the skin hunters of Alaska ardently desire the skins of those bears, for the money they represent. That side of the bear problem does not in the least appeal to the ninety odd millions of people who live this side of Alaska. The skins of the Alaskan brown bears have little value save as curiosities, nailed upon the wall, where they can not be stepped upon and injured. The _hunting_ of those bears, however, is a business for men; and it is partly for that reason they should be preserved. A bear-hunt on the Alaska Peninsula, Admiralty or Montagu Islands, is an event of a lifetime, and with a bag limit of _one_ brown bear, the species would be quite safe from extermination. [Illustration: THE WICHITA NATIONAL BISON HERD Presented by the New York Zoological Society] In Alaska there is some dissatisfaction over the protection accorded the big brown bears; but those rules are right _as far as they go_! A governor of Alaska once said to me: "The preservation of the game of Alaska should be left to the _people_ of Alaska. It is their game; and they will preserve it all right!" The answer? _Not by a long shot_! Only three things were wrong with the ex-governor's view: 1.--The game of Alaska does _not_ belong to the people who live in Alaska--with the intent to get out to-morrow! It belongs to the 93,000,000 people of the Nation. 2.--The preservation of the Alaskan fauna on the public domain should not be left unreservedly to the people of Alaska, because 3.--As sure as shooting, they will _not_ preserve it! Congress is right in appropriating $15,000 for game protection in Alaska. It is very necessary that the regulations for conserving the wild life should be fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture, with the advice of the Biological Survey.