Hunting in Many Lands 



work in the Yellowstone Park in capturing 

 poachers, which efforts were recognized by the 

 Boone and Crockett Club. If authority should 

 be given to the army to try and punish these 

 poachers by martial law, it would save many a 

 herd elsewhere, and also relieve the Govern- 

 ment from great expense for the transporting 

 and trial of offenders. 



When we reflect how many and valuable 

 races of animals in North America have be- 

 come extinct or nearly so, as the buffalo and 

 the manatee ; how many varieties of birds that 

 afforded us food, or brightened the autumn 

 sky with their migrations, have been annihi- 

 lated, as have been the prairie fowl in the 

 Eastern States and the passenger pigeon in 

 all our States, the necessity of these laws ap- 

 pears urgent. A few suggestions that experi- 

 ence has taught us in regard to these matters 

 are worthy of record. 



We must remember that in a republic no 

 law is effective without public opinion to back 

 it. Therefore, cotemporaneously with making 

 our laws, we should by writing and speaking 

 educate the public mind to appreciate and sus- 

 tain them. Experience has taught that in 

 these prosecutions the public prosecutor is a 



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