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experiment. Similar intensive check experiments are about to be 

 started at suitable points throughout the Southwestern Forests. When 

 they are concluded, it is believed the Forest Service will have the 

 necessary data for fixing a limitation of annual kill for any game unit 

 in the Southwest, provided a reliable census has been arrived at in the 

 meantime. Methods of obtaining a game census will be treated in a 

 separate article. 



It will readily be apparent that the methods outlined in this paper 

 are merely an adaptation of methods known to every scientific man, 

 while the principle of sustained production, toward the practice of 

 which the whole proposed system of game management is aimed, is 

 borrowed directly from forestry. It may, therefore, not come amiss 

 to ask, inasmuch as they have been in charge of the National Forests 

 for over ten years, why foresters have not long ago tried to apply the 

 principles of forestry to game management? As has been shown 

 in the previous article already referred to, and as will be shown in 

 more detail in subsequent articles, this may be done without interfering 

 in the least with the authority of the several States. State game officials 

 are generally without scientific training, and, if we are gomg to wait 

 for them to initiate a system of scientific game administration on the 

 Forest we are supposed to administer, we are going to wait a long time 

 and reflect scant credit upon the profession by our delay. 



