BULLETIN NUMBER ONE O 



From the beginning down to the present hour, the U. S. 

 Forest Service has striven with unflagging zeal and energy 

 to promote this cause. Having helped to formulate the 

 plan, Chief Forester Henry S. Graves sincerely believes in 

 the correctness of the principles laid down, and their entire 

 workability for the benefit of the people most nearly con- 

 cerned. Under the leadership of the Chief Forester, many 

 other officers of the bureau have put forth vigorous efforts 

 to place the plan before the people of the West, and to con- 

 tribute important facts and figures to the general campaign. 



The campaigning trustee was supplied with valuable 

 maps, and letters of introduction to western forest officers 

 and others, and he remembers with particular pleasure the 

 active co-operation of A. F. Potter, Associate Forester; 

 District Foresters Smith Riley (Colorado), Thos. P. Mac- 

 Kenzie (Oregon), C. A. Ringland (New Mexico), and 

 Officers Aldo Leopold and Way. 



Throughout the entire trip, the only note of opposition 

 that thus far has been heard has come from the San Fran- 

 cisco Examiner, the newspaper that for three years has 

 fought the California friends of wild life and advocated 

 the sale of game. Just why that particular journal should 

 adopt that course while Mr. Hearst's other newspapers 

 warmly endorse and sometimes aid the protection of wild 

 life, we cannot understand. 



Up to date the governors of seven of the twelve states 

 west of the plains have cordially endorsed our plan. The 

 states thus represented are Arizona, New Mexico, Montana, 

 Wyoming, Washington, Oregon and Colorado. Many news- 

 papers in that region have given our cause their editorial 

 endorsement, and we are in possession of nearly 1,000 writ- 

 ten pledges of support from the leading business and pro- 

 fessional men of the Rocky Mountain and Pacific States. 

 All these evidences of approval, with a far-reaching letter 

 of endorsement from ex-President Roosevelt, will be laid 

 before Congress in January, with our bill. 



