The Boone and Crockett Club 
ernment, and is the last refuge of the buffalo 
in this country, besides being the chief home 
of the elk and of many other wild beasts. 
This is the most striking and typical of all 
these reserves, and has been thought well 
worth special description in the present vol- 
ume, with reference to its effects upon the 
preservation of game. 
The enactment of laws prohibiting the 
killing of game anywhere, save at certain 
seasons and under certain conditions, must 
be left largely to the States themselves; and 
among the States there is the widest pos- 
sible difference both as to the laws and as 
to the way they are enforced. It is enforce- 
ment which needs most attention. Very many 
of the States have good game laws, but in 
very few are they rigidly enforced. Maine 
offers a striking instance of how well they 
work when properly framed and adminis- 
tered with honesty and efficiency. There 
are undoubtedly many more moose, caribou, 
and deer in Maine now than there were 
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