116 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
At present Alaska is a vast slaughter-pen for large game. Ex- 
cept the fur seal, nothing is protected. As usual in America, a 
great wealth of animal life is being ruthlessly swept away with- 
out the slightest attempt to check the slaughter. As far as pos- 
sible every mining town is supplied with wild meat. Caribou 
and Mountain Sheep carcasses are brought into Dawson by the 
ton, and the old days of buffalo slaughter are being enacted over 
again. 
It is high time that the United States Government should en- 
act laws for the regulation of big-game hunting in Alaska, and 
the first step should be the absolute prevention of the sale of 
game. There is also work for the Canadian Government to do 
in the Klondike region. 
