Hunting at High Altitudes 



mountain sheep should not be hunted. In the 

 future, in some localities, they may increase to the 

 point where a surplus may be killed. In the United 

 States grizzly bears, except those which kill cattle, 

 should not, for the present, be killed. In localities 

 deer should be more closely protected. The kill- 

 ing of surplus elk outside the Yellowstone Park is 

 a field for sport. The same is true in a number of 

 places of deer, moose, caribou and mountain goats. 



"The Game Committee believes that the com- 

 mon practice of advocating and passing rigid laws, 

 only changeable by legislative action, is wholly in- 

 adequate to meet the situation. It can never put 

 the matter on the right basis of quick adaptation 

 to changing and varied conditions. The question 

 calls for serious study and a new point of view. 



"We therefore urge continued efforts in behalf 

 of the valuable measures already proposed, namely, 

 better means of enforcing game laws, more effec- 

 tive means for the extermination of natural ene- 

 mies of all kinds of game, and a more effective 

 agitation of this aspect of the question, laws in all 

 States for non-sale of game, game refuges, and 

 game propagation. 



u We also urge careful consideration of the fol- 

 lowing subjects: Laws including permissive close 

 seasons, variable bag limits and other necessary 



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