40 WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



wolves that subsist on mule deer and mountain 

 sheep. There are several smaller national parks, 

 such as Sequoia, for the big redwood trees, 

 Yosemite, General Grant and Crater Lake. 



Of great importance to the American bison are 

 the four national bison ranges that have been 

 created especially for the perpetuation of that 

 species. Two of these have been stocked by the 

 New York Zoological Society and one by the 

 American Bison Society. The four are located as 

 follows: in the Wichita Mountains, southwestern 

 Oklahoma; in the southern end of the old Flathead 

 Indian reservation near Ravalli, Montana; at 

 Wind Cave, in the southern terminus of the Black 

 Hills, South Dakota; and the old Fort Niobrara 

 Military Reservation, in Nebraska. 



In the national parks and national game-pre- 

 serves no hunting is allowed; and these are indeed 

 wild-life preserves. In the vast stretches of the 

 national forests that plentifully blotch with green 

 the map of the western third of the United States, 

 hunting is allowed in accordance with the state 

 laws ; and beyond all possibility of serious question, 

 the killable wild life is rapidly vanishing from those 

 areas. There is no reason to believe that anywhere 

 in North America where hunting is allowed, any 

 species of big game except wolves are breeding 

 more rapidly than they are being killed. Every 

 national forest should be made a hard and fast 

 national game-preserve,, in which no hunting for 



