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
Whooping crane, passenger pigeon, American egret, wild turkey, Carolina
parrakeet; bison, moose, elk, woodland caribou, puma, wolverine.
WYOMING:
Whooping crane, trumpeter swan, wood-duck; mountain goat.
CANADA
ALBERTA:
Passenger pigeon, whooping crane; bison.
BRITISH COLUMBIA:
A. Bryan Williams reports: "Do not know of any birds having become
extinct."
MANITOBA:
Pigeon; bison, antelope, gray wolf.
NEW BRUNSWICK:
Pigeon.
NOVA SCOTIA:
Labrador duck, Eskimo curlew, passenger pigeon.
ONTARIO:
Wild turkey, pigeon, Eskimo curlew.
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND:
(Reported by E.T. Carbonell): Eskimo curlew, horned grebe, ring-billed
gull, Caspian tern, passenger pigeon, Wilson's petrel, wood-duck,
Barrow's golden-eye, whistling swan, American eider, white-fronted
goose, purple sandpiper, Canada grouse, long-eared owl, screech owl,
black-throated bunting, pine warbler, red-necked grebe, purple martin
and catbird; beaver, black fox, silver gray fox, marten and black bear.
QUEBEC:
Pigeon.
SASKATCHEWAN:
Pigeon; bison.
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BIRDS AND MAMMALS THREATENED WITH EXTINCTION
The second question submitted in my inquiry produced results even more
startling than the first. None of the persons reporting can be regarded
as alarmists, but some of the lists of species approaching extinction
are appallingly long. To their observations I add other notes and
observations of interest at this time.
ALABAMA:
Wood-duck, snowy egret, woodcock. "The worst enemy of wild life is the
pot-hunter and game hog. These wholesale slaughterers of game resort to
any device and practice, it matters not how murderous, to accomplish the
pernicious ends of their nefarious campaign of relentless extermination
of fur and feather. They cannot be controlled by local laws, for these
after having been tried for several generations have proven consummate
failures, for the reason that local authorities will not enforce the
provisions of game and bird protective statutes. Experience has
demonstrated the fact that no one desires to inform voluntarily on his
neighbors, and since breaking the game law is not construed to involve
moral turpitude, even to an infinitesimal degree, by many of our
citizens, the plunderers of nature's storehouse thus go free, it matters
not how great the damage done to the people as a whole."--(John H.
Wallace, Jr., Game Commissioner of Alabama.)
ALASKA:
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