Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and PreservationHornaday, William T. (William Temple)
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Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation
Hornaday, William T. (William Temple)
Game-laws -- United States; Wildlife conservation -- United States
Let us bear in mind the fact that Alaska is being throughly "opened up"
to the Man with a Gun. Here is the latest evidence, from the new
circular of an outfitter:
"I will have plenty of good horses, and good, competent and courteous
guides; also other camp attendants if desired. My intention is to
establish 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 protection; 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 little
to be desired in Arizona. That state has a bird fauna well worth
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county should be repealed.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 of
wild life are by no means up to the mark. At this moment, Arkansas is
next to Florida, the rearmost of all our states in wild-life protection.
Awake, Arkansas! Consider the peril that threatens your fauna. The Sunk
Lands, in your northeastern corner along the St. Francis River, are the
greatest wild-fowl refuge anywhere in the Mississippi Valley between the
Gulf Coast of Louisiana and the breeding-grounds of Minnesota. A duty to
the nation devolves upon you, to protect the migratory waterfowl that
visit your great bird refuge from the automatic and pump guns of the
pothunters who shoot for northern markets, and kill all that they can
kill. _Protect those Sunken Lands_! Confer a boon on all the people of
the Mississippi Valley by making that region a bird refuge in fact as
well as in name.
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