Protection of the Yellowstone Park 



tected by law," that trapping be prohibited, 

 and that the timber be protected from the 

 axman and from fires. Unfortunately I am 

 unable to possess myself of any of his sub- 

 sequent reports; but I know that he toiled 

 earnestly and without pay — and to no results. 

 On April i8, 1877, Mr. P. W. Norris was 

 appointed to succeed him. He also served 

 for love until July 5, 1878, when appropria- 

 tions began, and something was done for 

 "Park protection." In his report for 1879 ^^ 

 speaks of having stopped the killing of bison, 

 and says that other game, although "grown 

 shy by the usually harmless fusillade of tour- 

 ists," was in "abundance for our largest par- 

 ties." He also protected the wonders by 

 breaking them off with ax and crowbar, and 

 shipping them by the carload to Washing- 

 ton and elsewhere. His men did their best 

 to protect the forests from fires, and with only 

 fair success. By this report (1879) ^^ seems 

 that "no white men have ever spent an entire 

 winter at the Mammoth Hot Springs"; he 

 strongly recommended game protection, but 

 not the prohibition of hunting. There was 

 then but a single game superintendent, and he 

 without authority to act. As at present, the 



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