The Boone and Crockett Club 



his seat January, 1890. He was appointed chair- 

 man of the Game and Fisheries Committee of the 

 House, which passed a very sensible set of game 

 laws, March 14, 1890. 



In this way a few resolute men, members of the 

 Boone and Crockett Club, accomplished in the 

 then unsettled region of northwestern Wyoming, 

 work which preserved from extinction all the 

 larger game animals until the time came when the 

 tide of settlement swept over the whole country. 



When this tide of settlement came, the herds of 

 elk, mountain sheep and antelope were in part 

 pushed higher up into the mountains and finally 

 over their crest, and drifted west. In and about 

 the Yellowstone National Park, the descendants 

 of these animals may be found to-day. 



Good local work was done by Major W. Austin 

 Wadsworth, the President of the Club, who was 

 appointed President of the New York Forest, Fish 

 and Game Commission by Governor Roosevelt in 

 1900. No one knew better than Major Wads- 

 worth the needs of New York State as to the pro- 

 tection of forests, fish and game, and no< man 

 occupying the position of President of the Game 

 Commission ever worked harder to accomplish 

 results. His labors were devoted especially to the 

 protection of the forests and to efforts to secure 



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