PERMANENT WILD LIFE PROTECTION 



FUND 



BULLETIN No. 2 JANUARY 15, 1916 



PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION OF CONGRESS 



PART I 



SHALL WE HAVE A NEW FOOD SUPPLY? 



T N these days of high cost of living, vanishing beef and 

 *- vanishing big game, no man need apologize to Congress, 

 or to any State Legislature, for bringing forward a plan 

 carefully formulated to increase the supply of food, and 

 also to preserve the sport of big-game hunting from be- 

 coming, in the United States, an extinct pastime. 



Citizens who bring forward measures for the greatest 

 good of the greatest number, without asking for, — or in- 

 tending ever to ask for, — "big appropriations,'' and with- 

 out personal axes to grind, naturally hope for the active 

 co-operation of lawmakers, even though the national de- 

 fenses claim first consideration, and the most generous 

 support. 



The measure now before Congress to provide the federal 

 machinery for the creation of a great many game sanctu- 

 aries in our national forests is the logical outcome of the 

 wasteful, destructive and sometimes lawless times in which 

 we now live. Every new rifle and shot-gun, every new 

 automobile and every "good road" is a fresh menace to 

 our pitiful remnant of wild game. The man who doubts 

 this need only go out into any alleged game country, ask 

 questions and use his eyes in order to be convinced. 



The measure now before Congress has been thought out 

 by a number of experienced and capable men who know 

 conditions, and it is offered as a wholesale remedy for 



