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considerable attention to the subject of game pro- 

 tection, and submitted an opinion from the 

 Attorney-General to the general effect that it was 

 possible by legislation lawfully to protect the game 

 and fish of the reserves. The bill failed to pass. 



In the year 1903 Alden Sampson, then Secretary 

 of the Boone and Crockett Club, was appointed 

 game reserve expert by the Secretary of Agricul- 

 ture, and, working under the Biological Survey, 

 spent much time on the Pacific Coast studying 

 conditions there. In addition to his investigations, 

 Mr. Sampson performed good work for game 

 preservation, lecturing and talking in its behalf. 

 In "American Big Game in Its Haunts," the fourth 

 volume of the Boone and Crockett Club books, he 

 had an interesting paper on the creating of game 

 preserves, which deals very fully with his work on 

 the Pacific Coast, points out the necessity of game 

 refuges there, and shows how 'effectively such 

 refuges would protect the game. 



No argument is required to demonstrate this. 

 In the Yellowstone Park we have a perpetual 

 object lesson. Here the elk exist in such abundance 

 that in severe winters they starve to death, while 

 when they leave certain sections of that Park and 

 move down into Jackson's Hole, in their search for 

 food they destroy the fences, hay and other prop- 



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