CHAPTER VI 



PRIVATE GAME PRESERVES AS FACTORS IN 

 CONSERVATION 



BY FREDERIC C. WALCOTTi 



A request from Dr. Hornaday to contribute 

 anything intended to further the protection and 

 propagation of wild life in this country should be 

 taken as a command. When it was suggested that 

 I add a chapter to his Yale lectures to outline the 

 work accomplished by individuals and private asso- 

 ciations in establishing game refuges and sanctu- 

 aries in the United States, I accepted from sheer 

 enthusiasm for the subject, realizing fully my limi- 

 tations, but trusting that my brief report on what 

 has been accomplished may inspire similar efforts 

 in others. 



A man without a fad is hardly fit for human 

 society. A man with a good wholesome fad often 

 becomes quite independent of the very society which 

 he benefits through his enthusiasm, and there are 

 times when the call from the city to the game pre- 

 serve is even more imperative, and the problems 

 more absorbing, than those of the farm. 



i On the subject of this chapter, Mr. Walcott is particularly well 

 fitted to write by study and research, wide observation, practical 

 experience, and above all, keen interest in, and sympathy for, wild 

 life and its preservation. W. T. H. 



Illustrations from photographs by the author. 



