XLL GAME PRESERVATION IN THE 

 UNITED STATES 



AT the present moment one of the burning questions 

 of domestic interest in the United States is the enact- 

 ment of Game Laws. The origin of the movement 

 is curiously unlike that from which similar legislation 

 sprang in this country, though its object is identical. 

 In the various States of the Union the public are 

 clamouring for game preservation and stricter super- 

 vision, while private owners are, if anything, rather in 

 opposition to the general wish. Sport is the main 

 object of the new desire for game preservation, but 

 aesthetic feelings are not without influence, and the 

 legislators who desire penalties for wearing wild birds' 

 feathers act in harmony with those who wish to enact 

 more stringent Game Laws. The activities of these 

 reformers are so numerous, and spread over a country 

 of such vast area, that it is difficult to present them in 

 any continuous scheme ; but we give some of the 

 questions of the hour to illustrate the energy of this 



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