American Big Game in its Haunts 



ship in this country. Measures pertaining to game- 

 and forest protection, and matters of sport gener- 

 ally, always have had, and always will have, his 

 cordial approval and co-operation. He is heartily in 

 favor of the forest reserves, and of the project for 

 establishing, within these reserves, game refuges, 

 where no hunting whatever shall be permitted. 

 Aside from his love for nature, and his wish to 

 have certain limited areas remain in their natural 

 condition, absolutely untouched by the ax of the 

 lumberman, and unimproved by the work of the 

 forester, is that broader sentiment in behalf of 

 humanity in the United States, which has led him 

 to declare that such refuges should be established 

 for the benefit of the man of moderate means and 

 the poor man, whose opportunities to hunt and to 

 see game are few and far between. In a public 

 speech he has said, in substance, that the rich and 

 the well-to-do could take care of themselves, buy- 

 ing land, fencing it, and establishing parks and 

 preserves of their own, where they might look 

 upon and take pleasure in their own game, but 

 that such a course was not within the power of 

 the poor man, and that therefore the Government 

 might fitly intervene and establish refuges, such as 

 indicated, for the benefit and the pleasure of the 

 whole people. 



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