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STRAIGHTTALK
ON ALASKA’S
GAME STATUTE
Private letters passing between the
governor’s office anil the Outdoor Life
office show the personal views of the
chief executive of Alaska on a subject
that is of first magnitude importance
in the game preservation field, and we
gladly publish two of the most import
ant of these communications for gen
eral information:
Hon. Thos. J. Riggs, Governor,
Juneau, Alaska.
My dear Governor:—This letter is
written in compliance with the prom
ise 1 made to write you and give you
a short report on game conditions in
the Wjtite River district after return
ing from our hunting trip. I am also
sending you under separate cover a
copy of Outdoor Life containing the
bill creating a game commission for
the States, drawn by me and which I
am endeavoring to have passed by
several States that at present are
without such a law—this also is per
my promise.
First permit me to say that the
members of our party were unanimous
in the idea that the game laws of
Alaska are being flagrantly violated
in a few respects: Dogs are being
boarded (at least so we were informed
by Captain Hubrick and others) in
summer Lime mi game, wnicn 01 course
is against the law; game is being con
stantly killed by other than prospec
tors; and game is being openly served
at restaurants and hotels. While the
game law is not very clear regarding
the sale of game in Alaska, certainly
it was never the intention of the act
to allow it to be killed off end served
up in this way Ducks wore on the
bill of fare at the restaurant where
we ate in Cordova, and sheep meat
was sold at Chitina, where we stopped,
as mutton —although we were confi
dentally told it was your white sheep.
These things are being done right
under the eyes of the game wardens,
and to their full knowledge.
The scale of Alaska’s game law
should be revised and after that there
should then be installed a new and
effiiSr-nt system for the prosecution
of offenders. They told us on the trip
that arrests for violations of the game
laws were few and that ermvtctlons
they seldom or never heard of—this
from our guides and packers, and
others with whom we talked on the
subject.
I hope you will forgive me for being
so plain, but our trip was almost a
failure, and, as we know the game
was there a year previously, we sur
mise that too much lawless shooting
of it has driven it to other parts. We
were thirty-nine days in the field and
each day of hunting our party was
split into four or five divisions, each
hunting in a different direction from
camp, and we all saw less than a dozen
moose, less than two dozen caribou
and only one bear. As an example of
how hard we hunted I will say that I
was not fn camp until atter midnight
on three occasions and was out until
9 or 10 o’clock several times. Mr.
James also was out late several
times, as were also the other two boys
—his son and Mr. Rogers. We only
completed our sheep group—failing to
fill, by from one to three specimens,
on the moose, caribou and goat groups.
We killed no bears at all
J. A. McGUIRE.
Governor Rlgg’s Reply.
Mr dear Mr. McGuire:—I am afraid
that I cannot agree with you regard
ing the sale of game in Alaska, if
legally killed and within the limit as
prescribed by law. You must remem
ber that Alaska is a pioneer country
and it is not possible for everyone to
go out and kill meat. For instance,
it is impossible for me to take time
off for a hunting trip and, in conse
quence, if I am not allowed to buy
game occasionally, I would be cut off
from having any game delicacy fur
nished me, unless some kindly sports
man should take pity upon me. You
must also remember that the few peo
ple who are in Alaska (only about
18,000 of us now) are not sportsmen
in the true sense of the word. In other
words, we never kill for the sake of
killing. Game to us is merely meat,
and we do not approve of preserving
all game for the sport, principally to
a. non-resident who has no interest in
the territory except what he can get
put of it in the way of trophies. What
1 want established in Alaska are strict
and stringent laws regarding the ille
gal killing and, sale of game, but I
also want to make it possible for
Alaskans to eat game and not tie up
the territory as a game preserve for
i Pout tYiimnnoinn anru'tomnn ft’/Mn 1 1)0
States, who really do the terriory no
good at all.
In regard to ducks, it is quite true
that ducks are sold during the open
season at restaurants and hotels, as
they were in Maryland and the Dis
trict of Columbia when I left there,
but you must bear in mind, that the
duck season in Alaska is extremely
short. By October 1st there are abso
lutely no ducks left in the interior '.if
Alaska and very few on the coast, all
having started on their yearly migra
tion to the south.
The new Alaska game regulations
are out and are absolute abortions.
For instance, it provides that dogs
cannot be fed and that game must not
be used for bait. If these regulations
are enforced, it will mean that there
will be no prospectors in the hills with
dog teams and that trapping will be at
an end. I am unalterably opposed to
the boarding of dogs on game during
the summer season, or at any other
time, except when they are in use in
the hills, but if the prospector is not
allowed to feed his dogs on game,
then good-bye prospector. The game
laws of Alaska, to .be.observed and en
forced, must be such as will meet the
sense of justice of the residents. It is
almost impossible to .secure the con
viction of any transgressor of the
game laws by any United States com
ibtain until we can get the people
•ight back of all the laws. This can
inly be done by turning the protec
ion of game over to the territory and
tot allowing people who have never
leen within five thousand miles of
Maska dictate their terms.
The people of Alaska are very jeal
nis of their game, as they realize that
t is essential to the development of
he country, and, if left to them, they
would devise laws and regulations
such as would meet all the existing
mnditions. You will realize what
oily it is for any one man, or set of
nen, who do not know Alaska, to
nake the laws for a country which is
is large as Great Britain and Ireland,
Prance, Belgium, Roumania, Italy
Greece, Montenegro, Serbia and Portu
gal put together.
The greatest danger to the game at
present in Alaska is from the illegal
lunter and predatory animals. I only
rave ten wardens to patrol a territory
ine-fit'th the size of the United States.
During my trip, I have come across
flagrant violations of the law that have
sxasperated me intensely, but what
;an I do when congress only allows
me $20,000 with which to pay salaries
jnd traveling expenses of the game
wardens?
In regard to predatory animals, the
sxistence of deer in Southeastern
Alaska, on certain islands and on the
mainland Is menaced by the great
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