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been apprehended. Their efforts, however, 

 have been chiefly directed toward the education 

 of the people in the preservation and conserva- 

 tion of game and fish. 



Not alone are the members of these allied 

 associations working in conjunction with the 

 State Department to protect and propagate 

 fish and game and exerting their influence with 

 the legislature — an influence recognized by the 

 politicians — to pass adequate laws, but they are 

 devoting themselves to the education of the in- 

 dividual members of the communities in which 

 they reside. They have no big meetings, they 

 do not indulge in pyrotechnic oratory, they dis- 

 tribute no livid literature. They get down to 

 the ground and do work that tells. In this edu- 

 cational feature they are doing more really 

 beneficial protective work than any other body 

 of allied sportsmen in the country. And 

 through the interest they have awakened in the 

 subject they have built up their power. 



But in spite of this poaching exists, as it is 

 sure to exist in every country where there is 

 game, and many poachers escape. In Utah, 

 just as in other States, I met men who believed 

 that any legal restriction of hunting was an en- 

 croachment upon personal rights, and I learned 

 of several instances where such individuals had 



