The Boone and Crockett Club 



game and forest preservation, and conservation 

 generally, are Gen. John W. Noble, formerly Sec- 

 retary of the Interior; Hon. Frank Oliver, Min- 

 ister of the Interior for the Dominion of Canada ; 

 Senator T. H. Carter, Hon. John F. Lacey and 

 Gifford Pinchot, formerly United States Forester 

 All these men have served well their fellow men. 

 Within the last twenty years the Boone and 

 Crockett Club has been consulted and has worked 

 for or against legislation in various parts of North 

 America. From all over the land persons inter- 

 ested in game protection bring to it their problems 

 and ask its advice. In addition to this, the officers 

 of the Club have often been consulted as to condi- 

 tions in foreign countries, and the best forms for 

 game laws. Mr. Grant is responsible for portions 

 of the present game laws of Newfoundland, and it 

 was he who suggested that a strip of protected land 

 should be set aside on either side of the New- 

 foundland Railway, on which the migrating cari- 

 bou might not be killed or pursued. Out of the 

 setting aside of this strip grew the laying off of a 

 similar strip along the Uganda Railway in British 

 East Africa, which has resulted in an extraordinary 

 abundance of game there. Suggestions and advice 

 have been given with regard to public parks and 

 game reserves in British Columbia, and correspon- 



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