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 Cafion 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- 
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