Preface 



Although the Boone and Crockett Club has not 

 appeared largely in the public eye during recent 

 years, its activities have not ceased. The dis- 

 covery of gold in Alaska, and the extraordinary 

 rush of population to that northern territory had 

 the usual effect on the wild life there, and proved 

 very destructive to the natives and to the large 

 mammals. A few years ago it became evident 

 that the Kadiak bear and certain newly discovered 

 forms of wild sheep and caribou were being 

 destroyed by wholesale, and were actually threat- 

 ened with extermination, and through the efforts 

 of the Club, strongly backed by the Biological 

 Survey of the Department of Agriculture, a bill 

 was passed regulating the taking of Alaska large 

 game, and especially the exportation of heads, 

 horns, and hides. The bill promises to afford suf- 

 ficient protection to some of these rare boreal 



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