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“The grizzly destroys many pests— 
rats, mice, rabbits and grasshoppers. 
Most of his food habits are economically 
beneficial to mankind. Exceptional 
grizzlies have turned cattle killers; but 
eattle or big game killing is confined to 
exceptional individuals and not to ex- 
ceptional doings of all grizzlies. 
“The grizzly has courage, loyalty and 
individuality. * * * Our race loses if 
the grizzly goes. He is the master touch 
to arouse the imagination, to perpetuate 
the strange primeval memories, to give 
the wilderness its supreme spell,” 
We hope that the conservationists who 
are interested in the protection of this 
monarch of the wilds will be successful in 
spreading the gospel of their conservation 
and that early attention will be given 
the black bear that it may not follow the 
grizzly. 
BEAVERS INCREASE IN THE ADIRON- 
DACKS. 
A careful study of the beaver in the 
Adirondacks has shown that this fur- 
bearer is now so abundant that an open 
season is not only safe but necessary 
to prevent too much damage being done 
to timber and cultivated crops. In the 
day of the trapper the annual exporta- 
tion of beaver pelts from New York State 
alone amounted to 8,000. This was in 
the days of the beaver hat, in the year 
1668. By 1820 beavers were so reduced 
in numbers that they probably numbered 
a little more than 1,000 in the Adiron- 
dacks. In 1895 it has been estimated 
that there were not more than five or ten 
animals left in this same region. About 
this time efforts were made by sportsmen 
to not only protect the beaver, but to 
restock some of the streams. In 1906 
some actual restocking took place, 34 
beavers in all were released during the 
restocking period, and at tne present 
time, 14 years later, the beaver in the 
Adirondacks are easily estimated at from 
5,000 to 10,000. Beavers are now so 
abundant that considerable damage is 
caused by flooding timber areas and .ob- 
structing navigation. 
The simple remedy for the conditions 
as ‘they now exist is to ask the New 
York Legislature to open the season on 
beavers, and this will be done, 
CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME, 
This is another case similar to that 
of the deer in Vermont, where restocking 
proved eminently successful. Wild ani- 
mals have wonderful powers of recuper- 
ation and if given a chance will quickly 
restock the area. Better, however, than 
restocking is the conservation of a sufli- 
cent breeding stock, 
STATE FAIR EXHIBIT. 
The exhibit at the State Fair which 
drew so much favorable attention last 
year was remodeled and improved for 
the 1920 fair. The observation platform 
was moved farther away, additional foot- 
hills were added and a miniature electric 
train, with bridges and tunnels, was in- 
stalled and better lighting effects supplied. 
It will be remembered that the exhibit is 
a cyclorama, showing the Sierra from 
Mount Shasta on the north to Mount 
Whitney on the south, with miniature 
hatchery buldings in the foreground, and 
still nearer in the foreground a large lake 
containing live trout. Of particular in- 
terest this year were the added cloud 
effects. While changing colors which 
light the mountains show the change from 
day to night. clouds sweep across the sky 
and later the stars appear. ‘This is fol- 
lowed by the rosy tints of morning. 
Visitors to the fair unhesitatingly 
stated that this exhibit was not only the 
finest exhibit on the fair grounds but the 
finest ever shown in the West, even ex- 
ceeding any of those shown at the Pan- 
ama-Pacifie Hxposition. 
As in previous years there was a splen- 
did aquarium’ display of food and game 
fishes, including the famous golden trout. 
LAW LEGALIZES CARRYING OF GUN 
IN CLOSED SEASON. 
At the last session of the legislature 
jack rabbits were placed on the predatory 
mammal list, thus not only allowing kil- 
ling at all times but allowing the killing 
of them without a hunting license. Grant- 
ing that the jack rabbit is a pest and 
needs no protection at the present time, 
yet this law gives the alien hunter and 
violator a chance to carry a gun the 
year around, thus making law enforce- 
ment particularly difficult. More and 
more it becomes evident that the carry- 
ing of a gun during certain seasons of 
