134 THE AXGLKE AXD HUXTSMAX 



So it is that the frigid regions of the North offer the 

 last haven of safety for our big game animals. The climate 

 in years past has proven a tolerably safe barrier of security 

 for them, but even there they are not safe. Hardy sports- 

 men and natives annually take a heavy toll from their num- 

 bers and it only remains a mere matter of time until they 

 will be extinguished if the strong arm of the law, armed with 

 effective conservation legislation, does not intervene and 

 stay their execution. 



We, and our neighbor to the North of us, have already 

 enacted some very humane and essential game laws, in fact 

 we have more laws than we have gaine left to protect, and 

 what we most need at the present moment is not more game 

 laws, but more rigid enforcement of those already on our 

 statute books. This is the crying need of the hour. I say. 

 down with the game hog and market hunter, and all hail 

 to the true sportsmen, whom these protective measures, 

 properly enforced, will really benefit, as is apparent on the 

 face of the proposition. We claim to be living in a pro- 

 gressive age. Then, let's do something that is really pro- 

 gressive. Suppose we make each sportsman a committee of 

 one to see that no game hogs and pot hunters stay around 

 his "neck of the woods' 7 unpunished by law. "In union 

 there is strength," and " United we stand, Divided we fall/' 

 are two good mottoes for us to go by, for if all we sportsmen 

 "pull together" and introduce a little "team work" into our 

 efforts, the result will be amazing and gratifying. 



As the situation now stands, the sportsman of to-day 

 needs must travel afar to these northern or western abodes 

 of big game if he would not court failure. No longer is -it 

 possible for those living in a thickly populated community 

 to go out and bag a bear, a moose, a sheep, a caribou, or a 

 deer, as in days of old, without investing a young fortune in 

 equipment and railroad fare. They must hie away to some 

 remote spot whence the larger game has fled. This incon- 

 venience and expense caused the modern sportsman is di- 



