Hunting at High Altitudes 



Alaska have a food supply which is available 

 throughout the most of the district, and they are 

 consequently not entitled to any special privileges. 

 Alaska is, and for a long time should remain, the 

 ward of the Federal Government however dis- 

 tasteful this may be to some of its inhabitants. It 

 is peculiarly the duty of the Federal Government 

 to preserve and control the wild game of this 

 national domain, because the people of the United 

 States as a whole are the ones most interested in 

 its preservation. It is to Congress, rather than to 

 the residents of Alaska, that we must look for the 

 enactment and enforcement of suitable laws, to 

 seize the last great opportunity to preserve our 

 native fauna on a large scale. In the future, no 

 doubt, we shall restore game and perhaps forests 

 to many districts now stripped of both, but in 

 Alaska we have our last chance to preserve and 

 protect rather than to restore. 



The claim made by many Western communities, 

 that local State laws are sufficient for game preser- 

 vation, is constantly disproved by the inability of 

 several States to control the small game supply left 

 within their own borders. Colorado, is an example 

 of the diminution of game under State control. In 

 Canada, British Columbia prides itself on the 

 efficiency of its game laws, but the game is vanish- 



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