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female animals^ the game can be maintained at a point 

 which does not spell extinction. The Fernie District 

 Game Protective Association was not organized a mo- 

 ment too soon. Its work is cut out for it, and it is to be 

 hoped that it will retain a large membership, together 

 with a large annual income, in order that it may have 

 the power to protect. Game cannot be really protected 

 without the expenditure of some money. 



Possibly my American Reader may be tempted to 

 think that all this is of little interest to him; but not so. 

 The perpetual preservation of the grand game of the 

 grand mountain-land just beyond our northern boundary 

 is of interest to every American sportsman; and I hope 

 this seeming digression will be endorsed. 



Mr. Phillips and I have strongly recommended to 

 the Fernie Association that immediate steps be taken by 

 the provincial parliament to permanently set aside, as a 

 game preserve, the country between the Bull and Elk 

 Rivers, with Charles L. Smith in charge of it as warden. 

 The reasons for such a step are too many to mention 

 here, but let me say that there are practically no reasons 

 against it. Whoever aids in preserving from extinction 

 the grand game of British Columbia renders good ser- 

 vice to two countries. 



