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supply of fish rods. One of our supervisors in reporting 
on the number of tourists visiting his Forest makes the 
note, “Every tourist a fisher.”” Each day a tourist stays 
to fish or hunt means at least $5.00 spent in the State. 
PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT. 
In order properly to manage our wild life resources, 
particularly the fish and game, certain definite action is 
necessary. Protective measures, as well as methods to 
increase the production of fish and game, must be based 
on correct information regarding natural history. The 
public and particularly the sportsmen, must appreciate 
the reasons for such measures and provide a public senti- 
ment that will demand their being carried out. The 
administration of the game department must be such as 
will sincerely strive to improve conditions and have the 
interests of the sportsman at heart. 
In this connection let me emphasize the necessity 
for the wild life enthusiast and the naturalist to recognize 
the great number of men who are just ordinary sports- 
men. Working by himself the naturalist plays rather a 
lone hand but by active cooperation with the sportsmen 
he can give them much information they are anxious to 
obtain and can do considerable in encouraging better 
sportsmanship. In the end it is the attitude of the aver- 
age man which governs the success of protective mea- 
sures and it is through him that the greatest results can 
be obtained. 
RESPONSIBILITY OF SCIENTIFIC MEN. 
It will be clear to anyone that if we are to plan 
properly for a continuous supply of fish and game we must 
have an intimate knowledge of the life history of the 
various forms and their reactions to outside influences. 
As in other forms of conservation, dependance for such 
information must be made on scientific men. 
There are very often proposals made and even en- 
acted into laws which scientific knowledge can show are 
absolutely worthless or even a disadvantage to the per 
petuation of fish or game species. 
