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game refuges where the animals can 

 not be hunted but breed and in time 

 overflow into the surrounding country. 

 Such refuges become game reservoirs. 

 Bears, wild cats, and mountain lions 

 also inhabit and breed in the National 

 Forests, though the game refuge does 

 not afford them sanctuary; but coyotes 

 and wolves, by far the most destructive 

 of the predatory animals, are only 

 transients, wintering and breeding in 

 the foothills and plains outside of the 

 Forests and trailing the domestic stock 

 into the mountains as the advancing 

 season brings forward the forage crop. 

 The National Forests embrace mil- 

 lions of acres of the best big-game 

 country in the United States, but 

 hunting on them has two aspects. One 

 is a matter of business; the other is 

 sport for sport's sake. From the busi- 

 ness point of view, the game is a resource 



of great value. The income from hunt- 

 ing licenses is an important source of 

 revenue in some States. Many western 

 towns thrive mainly because of the 

 money which sportsmen spend for 

 guides, outfits, and supplies. The 

 town of Cody, Wyoming, for example, is 

 a favorite starting point for parties 

 which push thence westward into the 

 rich game country embraced in the 

 Shoshone National Forest, adjoining 

 the Yellowstone. Sometimes these 

 parties combine a hunting trip with a 

 visit to the Yellowstone National Park. 

 All guns must of course be left behind 

 while the followers of Nimrod are 

 converted into tourists and take in the 

 sights of this wonderful and unique 

 national possession; for no firearms can 

 be carried within the Park. But going 

 or coming there is plenty of oppor- 

 tunity to take advantage of the fact 



Startled by the Camera's Click, 

 a deer photographed ix the san isabel national forest, custer county, colorado. 



