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bears should be a source of relaxation and furnish 

 new Interests and enjoyment. But the bears are 

 becoming unhealthy and are a menace to people. 

 Now and then some official tries to cure the bear 

 trouble by having a number of bears roped, tied, 

 and whipped. Occasionally a bear is shot. There 

 are those who advocate that the guides and offi- 

 cials of the Park carry guns; and still others are 

 advocating the extermination of the grizzly. We 

 need the grizzly. Most cures proposed are worse 

 than his trouble. But there is a prevention in sim- 

 ply no garbage-piles. 



In the Glacier National Park, which has been a 

 wild-life reservation only since 1910, the grizzlies 

 have not yet become demoralized by garbage. The 

 grizzly bear situation in the Yellowstone is a seri- 

 ous and even an alarming one, and what exists 

 here is certain to develop in other Parks. The de- 

 moralizing factors are likely to be expanded and 

 not diminished. Then, too, In the Yellowstone this 

 continuous eating of garbage may ere long bring on 

 a pestilence among the grizzlies, or possibly put a 

 check on the number of cubs bom. The whole situ- 

 ation appears to be embraced In what I have pre- 

 viously said about what a grizzly is fed and how. 



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