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Barnes, Superintendent of Grazing; R. W. Williams, As- 

 sistant Solicitor of the Department of Agriculture ; Henry 

 W. Henshaw, Chief of the Biological Survey; E. W. Nel- 

 son, Assistant Chief of the Biological Survey, and George 

 Hewitt Myers. 



Criticisms and suggestions for improvements were also 

 invited from Dr. T. S. Palmer. Nearly all the suggestions 

 made were adopted. Assistant Solicitor Williams offered 

 the opinion that the plan would prove to be constitutional, 

 and that its enactment lay fully within the powers of Con- 

 gress. The plan was also submitted to Charles Stewart 

 Davison, Madison Grant and Marshall McLean, of 

 New York, all of whom approved it. The leading features 

 of the original plan stood practically unchanged, and the 

 final draft went before the W^est without the slightest 

 alteration. 



A careful survey of the field resulted in the following 

 decisions : 



1. That the question of the desirability of game 

 sanctuaries in national forests is one on which the peo- 

 ple west of the Great Plains should be heard first. 



2. That if a majority of the western states decide 

 that they do not desire them, the whole matter should 

 be dropped. 



3. That the only way to ascertain the views and 

 wishes of the people of the West lay in going to them, 

 and meeting them face to face. 



4. That on account of many disquieting reports, full 

 advantage should be taken of every opportunity to in- 

 vestigate the alarming conditions surrounding the up- 

 land game birds (grouse, ptarmigan and quail), and 

 the deer, of the states west of the Great Plains. 



The Campaigning Trustee decided to make a tour that 

 would embrace the capitols or principal cities of the eleven 

 national forest states of the West, and deliver his message 

 from the platform, through the press and through the co- 

 operation of interested wild life conservationists. The co- 

 operation sought and generously extended is set forth in 

 Bulletin No. 1 of this volume. 



