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ROBSON BLACK. Editor. 



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VOL. XVI. PRINTED AT KINGSTON, CANADA. DECEMBER, 1920 No. 12 



Address all communications to Suite 224, Jackson Building, Ottawa. 



Stop the Fires or Lose Our Game! 



Bp Maxwell Graham 

 Director of Park. Animals, Dominion Parks Branch 



''If We are to preserve our fur 



bearers, We must preserve 



our forests'' 



"In taking stock of our national re- 

 sources and considering ways and 

 means for their conservation, it should 

 not be overlooked that an important part 

 of the national assets consist of our in- 

 sectivorous and game birds, our splen- 

 did game animals, and our native fur 

 bearers." 



Thus stated Doctor C. Hart Merriam, 

 former Chief of the United States Bio- 

 logical Survey. 



If the above is true in regard to the 

 United States, it applies with even 

 greater force to Canada. Because, as 

 a nation a greater percentage of our 

 population follow farming and fruit 

 growing; further, our timber industry is 

 also of greater relative importance than 

 is that of the Ignited States. 



Tt may be assumr(l that the settled 

 opinion of all well-in iMrnicd persons is 

 that the game, in its limited sense, both 

 birds and mammals, of a coimtry. has a 

 four-fold v:dnc to it< Dcople. viz: 



I n) Tho value of bir(N. g:nuc an<l 

 non-eauie. to all the neoolr .i^ msect. 

 rodent ami wee<l-seed dost rovers. thu>^ 

 assisting our vegetable and other crop 



producers and preserving our fast di- 

 minishing forests. 



(b) The value of game quadrupeds 

 certain birds, and fish, as food assets. 



(c) The value of all game as an in- 

 centive and inducement to an out-door 

 life whereby man may recuperate his 

 powers and renew his health. 



(d) The value of game in an economic 

 and financial way to a country because 

 of the tourists and sportsmen's travel 

 attracted thereby. 



Many varieties of game animals and 

 game birds, and practically all of our 

 fur-bearers, are products of our for- 

 ests. 



Among big game. Mc^t^se and Wood- 

 land Caribou are essentially products of 

 our forests. 



It is in foreste<l are;i-^. in tlie inore 

 ncrtluTh districts, that tlie densest and 

 finest of our furs arc to be found. But 

 the ever expanding area of human 

 settlements have caused manv districts, 

 formerly the haunts of fur-bearers to 

 be now i-ntirely denuded of them. The 

 clearim: awav >A the fore-t< and the 

 grazing of natmal coverts by domestic 



