The Boone and Crockett Club 



present volume is devoted to big-game hunt- 

 ing and to questions of game preservation. 

 In behalf of game protection the Club 

 works through the State for the procuring 

 and setting apart of reservations where for- 

 ests and game alike shall be protected at 

 all seasons by the law. These great forest 

 reservations thus become the nurseries and 

 breeding-grounds of game and of the large 

 wild animals which are elsewhere inevitably- 

 exterminated by the march of settlement. 

 Already several such reservations have been 

 established in different States, both by Na- 

 tional and by State action — for instance, the 

 Adirondack Reserve in New York, the Col- 

 orado Canon Reserve in Arizona, the big 

 timber reserves in Colorado and Washing- 

 ton, the island set apart in Alaska as an 

 undisturbed breeding-ground for salmon and 

 sea-fowl, the Yosemite Valley and the Se- 

 quoia Parks in California. The most impor- 

 tant reservation, however, is the Yellowstone 

 Park, which is owned by the National Gov- 



