(The Boone and Crockett Club 







V. 

 ALASKA GAME LAW. 



After the discovery of gold in Alaska and the 

 rush thither of a horde of miners and other settlers, 

 an. enormous destruction of large game animals 

 took place in that then unknown region, and in 

 certain districts the game was exterminated. Some 

 forms of life caribou and bears seemed to be 

 threatened with extinction. It was apparent that 

 game laws were needed here that a foundation 

 must be laid for the protection of these large 

 animals over the one great area belonging to the 

 United States, which is still unsettled. On the 

 other hand, it was obvious that game was needed 

 for food for the miners, while the natives 

 depended for subsistence almost wholly on the 

 wild animals. 



Early in the year 1902, two members of the 

 Club, John F. Lacey, of Iowa, and Madison 

 Grant, of New York, prepared a bill to protect the 

 game of Alaska, which Mr. Lacey introduced in 

 the House of Representatives. It prohibited the 

 killing of wild game animals, or wild birds, for 

 purposes of shipment from the District of Alaska. 

 Game animals and birds were defined. Fur- 



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