PUBLIC URGED TO
GO BEYOND MERE
CONSERVATION ACT
Forest Service Expert Predicts Shot
Vote May Save Future State
Elections.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Until game
management in the U. S. is made a
profession, conservation of wild life
Is largely fighting windmills, states
Aldo Leopold of the United States
Forest Service in a recent bulletin
of the American Game Protective As
sociation. Game, to be successfully
conserved, must be positively pro
duced rather than merely negatively
protected, he contends. He maintains
that game management will not be a
success, even with wise laws and
enlightened public sentiment, linless
there is competent and enthusiastic
official leadership, and asserts that
if the voters would apply to game
wardenships the principles of sound
organization which govern business,
the progress of game management
would be quadrupled.
"Closely related to the problem of
obtaining competent official leader
ship is the growing political con
sciousness of conservationists,” Mr.
Leopold goes on. ‘‘Ten years ago
nobody even thought of voting on a
conservation issue. Today thousands
are voting for the candidate with the
soundest conservation program. There
is a large proportion of ‘independ
ents’ among conservationists, who
attach more importance to a govern
or’s promise to appoint a good game
warden in their home state than to
Iris views on some nebulous issue in
partisan politics. In New Mexico, for
instance, where the sportsmen have
been very active but until this year
largely ignored by th partis in
power, it is not improbable that the
‘shotgun vote’ may one of these days
determine the outcome of a state j
election.
New Technique Needed.
“Having learned to regard game as
,a crop, we encounter at once the all
important question of how to grow it
—the question of building up a tech
nique of game production. Right
public attitude, effective game war
dens, ample funds, use of voting
power—all these are of no avail un
less we know how. Laws, men and
money, without skill, will no more
grow game on our farms and in our
forests than they will grow wheat
or white pine saw logs.
“In spite of our slow progress in
creating this new profession, the
sheer logic of events has forced a
few highly significant developments
in technique. The most conspicuous
example is the growth of game ref
uges as a device for maintaining a
breeding stock in hard-hunted re
gions. There are still whole states
which have not yet heard of game
refuges, and many others are blun
dering badly in their attempts to use
them because they do not under
stand the working principles neces
sary to their successful use.
“Hand in hand with the growth of
a teniaue of game prdouction must
go an enlargement of discretionary
authority in applying it. The most
intelligent legislature in all LUopia
■cannot predict what the game in
Boone County is going to need next
winter. It is absolutely iimperatve
that our game commissions, whom
we charge with responsibility for
our game, must likewise have reg
ulatory powders to devise and enforce
the action necessary to take care of
it. Fixed game laws must give way
to flexible game regulations. The
secretary of agriculture already en
joys regulatory powers over migra
tory game, and we all know the
splendid results obtained. Certain
states, notably, New Mexico, have
given similar authority to their state
game commissions. The re3t must
do so, or eventually go gameless.
Jurisdiction Is Question.
"‘The process of delimitation of
jurisdiction is another big develop
ment. Until we settle what official
agency is responsible for the manage
ment of each class of game or each
unit of territory, we can have no a-c
•countability and hence no results.
The migratory bird law, vesting pri
mary jurisdiction over migratory
birds in the federal government is, of
course, the outstanding accomplish
ment in this field.
“There remains one extremely im
portant question which has been the
subject of endless complaint, but
hardly any progress. I refer to posted
lands and game monopoly.
“The key to the next move on farm
lands is the fact that the increasing
but needless clearance of coverts is
doing the game more harm than the
song bird list is doing it good. There
are two possible plans to conserve
these coverts and secure the perform
ance of the things necessary for
them to produce game. One plan is
for the state, municipality, or local
sportsmen’s association to pay the
farmer for the coverts, labor and ma
terials used in exchange for public
shooting privileges. The other plan
is for organized groups of sportsmen
to arrange with organized groups of
farmers to restore the coverts and
take care of the game, the sportsmen
paying the farmers f rothe coverts,
labor and materials in exchange for
shooting privileges granted to them.”
KETCHIKAN LOGGER
CRUSHED TO DEATH
John Erickson, resident of Ketchi
kan for the past 12 years, was dis
covered dead near Carroll Inlet re
cently, by J. M. Wyckoff, attached to
the Ketchikan office of the forest
service, says the Chronicle.
Erickson had not been in town
for a considerable period, and be
coming alarmed at his prolonged
absence Mr. Wyckoff called at Car
roll Inlet to find out if anything
was wrong. Erickson had been hand
logging. He discovered Erickson near
a small creek, a log having apparent
ly rolled down and crushed him.
Erickson was very methodical and j
each day marked off on a large
calendar in his cabin the day of the
week. The last one so marked was
August 4. The door of the cabin
was open and Erickson’s dog was
found lying on his bunk in aa ema
ciated condition apparently waiting
for his master to return. The dog
had not been fed for a long period
and was so weak that he was unable
to move of his own accord.
Erickson was a charter member
of the Ketchikan post of the Am
erican Legion. He has been engag
ed variously in fishing, mining and
logging since he came to this dis
trict and at the time of his death
owned a number of marble claims
on Carroll Inlet, near where he was
logging. „„
He was 45 years of age at the time
of his death and his mother, who
lives in Kettle River, Minn., is be
lieved to be the only member of his
family surviving him.
United States Commissioner J. W.
Kehoe and Deputy U. S. Marshal R.
H. Humber left this morning for
Carroll Inlet to bring the body here.
Harvard Professor Secures
Four Grizzly Specimens
This Season in Interior
In conjunction with the Biological
department at Washington, D. C., T.
Lyman, of Harvard University, who
was an outgoing passenger on the S.
S. Yukon, from Seward last week, se
cured a series of brown and grizzly
specimens, skins and skulls, near Don
nely’s in the Interior, which will be
forwarded to the States by Mr. Muire,
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of the Alaska Department.
There is a peculiar color variation
in these bears, Mr. Lyman stated to
the Seward Gateway representative,
running from light yellow to brown
and silver. In all he secured four
bears, two of which were full grown,
a male and female, and two smaller
ones. Four years ago he visited Al
aska and procured four specimens of
caribou.
^On this year’s trip into the hills, Mr.
Lyman had in his party Frank Glaser,
as guide, Mr. Glaser residing at Mc
Kinley Park; and Guy Birch, of Ne
nana who was in charge of the four
horses.
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