The Boone and Crockett Club 



present volume is devoted to big-game hunt- 

 ing and to questions of game preservation. 

 In behalf of game protection the Club 

 works through the State for the procuring 

 and setting apart of reservations where for- 

 ests and game alike shall be protected at 

 all seasons by the law. These great forest 

 reservations thus become the nurseries and 

 breeding-grounds of game and of the large 

 wild animals which are elsewhere inevitably 

 exterminated by the march of settlement. 

 Already several such reservations have been 

 established in different States, both by Na- 

 tional and by State action for instance, the 

 Adirondack Reserve in New York, the Col- 

 orado Canon Reserve in Arizona, the big 

 timber reserves in Colorado and Washing- 

 ton, the island set apart in Alaska as an 

 undisturbed breeding-ground for salmon and 

 sea-fowl, the Yosemite Valley and the Se- 

 quoia Parks in California. The most impor- 

 tant reservation, however, is the Yellowstone 

 Park, which is owned by the National Gov- 



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