Preservation of Our Wild Animals 



of the Gizeh Zoological Gardens, made a very full 

 report, which is quoted in Nature for July 25, 

 1901, p. 318. 



STATE LAWS. 



The preservation of even a few of our wild 

 animals is a very large proposition; it is an under- 

 taking the difficulty of which grows in magnitude 

 as one comes to study it in detail and gets on the 

 ground. The rapidly increasing legislation in the 

 Western States is an indication of rapidly growing 

 sentiment. A still more encouraging sign is the 

 strong sympathy with the enforcement of the laws 

 which we find around the National Park in 

 Wyoming and Montana especially. State laws 

 should be encouraged, but I am convinced that 

 while effective in the East, they will not be effect- 

 ive in the West in time, because of the scattered 

 population, the greater areas of country involved, 

 the greater difficulty of watching and controlling 

 the killing, and the actual need of game for food 

 by settlers. 



When we study the operation of our State laws 

 on the ground we find that for various reasons 

 they are not fully effective. A steady and in some 

 cases rapid diminution of animals is going on so 

 far as I have observed in Colorado and Wyoming; 



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