Hunting at High Altitudes 



the attention of sportsmen. They should make the 

 results of sport available for the study of natural 

 history. Hitherto sportsmen have largely retained 

 and isolated their trophies instead of making them 

 available to our museums for study. As a result, 

 the museums to-day lack sufficient specimens of 

 some of our important large game animals for 

 comparative study. They are totally lacking in 

 skulls of the eastern elk, the plains grizzly, and the 

 sheep of the Black Hills, all of which are now 

 extinct. There is in our museums a scarcity of 

 specimens of certain other large animals, many of 

 which are approaching extinction without being 

 properly represented by specimens. Indeed, study 

 series of some really common game animals are 

 still lacking. Sportsmen have begun to interest 

 themselves in allying their sport with natural his- 

 tory, and we believe that the time has come for 

 every sportsman to associate himself with some 

 museum with a view to contributing his quota to 

 the knowledge of our native fauna. 



"The Game Committee believes that most of the 

 measures proposed for enactment in laws are not 

 of a character to afford a permanent solution for 

 the preservation of American game. They lack the 

 needed elements of variability and quick adaptabil- 

 ity to diverse and constantly changing conditions. 



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