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8. At the end of three years, restrict by legal enactment the 
the number of game birds that may be killed or taken in one 
day, or in any given period, by a single individual. 
CONCLUSIONS REGARDING WESTERN MAmmatis.—1. Through- 
out the whole region west of the Mississippi River, except in the 
Yellowstone Park and Colorado, all the large quadrupeds, save 
gray wolves and coyotes, are being shot down several times faster 
than they multiply. 
2. Under existing conditions, their general annihilation with- 
in a few years time (save in the two localities noted) may be re- 
garded as a certainty. 
3. Outside of areas actually protected, the prong-horned ante- 
lope will be the next large species to disappear; and it will 
be closely followed by the mountain sheep, mountain goat, 
California grizzly bear, beaver, elk and mule deer. 
4. It should be accepted asa fixed fact that any western state 
or territory so sparsely settled that large quadrupeds can success- 
fully hide and breed in its wilderness areas, is not financially 
able to employ a force of salaried game wardens large enough to 
maintain surveillance over all persons who are inclined to kill 
game. 
5. The professional guides and hunters, the ranchmen and other 
country residents of the Rocky Mountain and Pacitc Coast re- 
gions, are the only men who have it within thetr power, or who ever 
will have it within their power, to save our noblest species of wild 
game animals from complete annthilation. 
6. These men are the ones who will lose most, both in money 
and in food, by the destruction of the game animals that now 
furnish them a valuable source of revenue. 
RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING Mammats.—l. Asa matter 
of duty to their own interests, the guides, hunters, ranchmen 
and sportsmen of the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coast regions 
should assemble and decide what restrictions shall be placed upon 
the killing of large game—as to the number of head per man that 
may be taken, license fees and fines, and as to the necessity of 
total prohibition for given periods. 
2. Every state and territory now inhabited by large game 
should immediately enact a law prohibiting the killing of any 
female hoofed animal, under any and all circumstances, and also 
