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State concerned. (6.) It is expedient to establish a large number of 

 sanctuaries of medium size rather than a few large preserves. (7.) The 

 ideal condition would be a chain of sanctuaries which in time would re- 

 store game to all the intervening territory. (8.) Administration will be 

 vested in the Secretary of Agriculture. (9.) Boundaries are to be set- 

 tled after full consideration of all conditions. (10.) Predatory animals 

 are to be killed. (11.) The object of these sanctuaries is to provide 

 breeding places for game which will spread over adjacent territory, where 

 it will be subject to the regular open season provided by law. This will 

 prevent danger of overstocking the ranges. It will therefore not be the 

 general policy to extend these sanctuaries. 



"In addition to the above, it is to be understood that the final success 

 of the plan contemplates the same strict regulation of the game that may 

 and may not be killed annually, the same as obtains in the deer forests 

 of Europe. A large stock of game must be kept alive so that the annual 

 increase will yield a large food supply that will be permanent" 



Underneath the above appeared this : 



Declaration. 



"I have read the above plan and I hereby pledge to it my endorse- 

 ment and support. 



( Sign here ) 



(Business) 



(Address) 



The above document was offered for signature, not to the 

 thousands and tens of thousands, but to a small number 

 of picked men who were regarded as thoroughly representa- 

 tive of their respective states. No one will doubt our abil- 

 ity to have secured a very large number of signatures had 

 we chosen to campaign on that basis ; but we believed that 

 a small body of leading and representative men would be 

 to Congress a satisfactory index of public sentiment. 



Each person whose name appears in the list now to be 

 given has signed the document and ''declaration" printed 

 above, or otherwise declared in writing his endorsement. 



As previously said, we have from the first treated this 

 idea as one which particularly concerns the states that con- 

 tain national forests, especially the block of twelve states 

 west of the great plains, and we resolved to stand or fall by 

 the verdict of those states. Our campaign has been al- 

 most wholly confined to the West. In order to meet the 

 men and women of the West face to face, and talk this mat- 

 ter over with them, the Campaigning Trustee devoted the 



