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come appears in the modern use of automobiles and 

 airplanes for hunting. A thousand miles of search 

 awheel is considered none too great for the guerdon 

 of a couple of antelope. The vast desert country is 

 alive with motoring sportsmen in season, and out of 

 season many a lawless driver with a surreptitious 

 rifle keeps a roving eye on the passing landscape in 

 hope of a chance shot. More and more airplanes are 

 used not only to locate game on plain and mountain, 

 but to land hunters within striking distance. More 

 and more are they carrying hunters and supplies 

 over miles of difficult wildernesses to hunting grounds 

 which in former days would seldom be attained be- 

 cause of the time and the difficulty necessary for pas- 

 sage of pack trains. 



Analyzing more comprehensively than Mr. 

 Redington the forces combined for wild life recov- 

 ery, we find them four: first, organized sportsmen 

 seeking game conservation for the continuance of 

 sport and wild life protection generally, a very large 

 earnest body conspicuous in every state, able and 

 willing to raise all the money necessary for efficient 

 campaigning; second, wild life conservationists for 

 preservation sake only, numerically many times the 

 sportsmen, potentially representing a broad national 

 sentiment, but unorganized and unfinanced; third, 

 state conservation departments responsive largely 

 to the demands of local sportsmen and applying 

 science to their interests ; and, fourth, the Biological 

 Survey, responsive to all public demands for con- 



