PERMANENT WILD LIFE PROTECTION 



FUND 



BULLETIN No. 5 DECEMBER 1, 1916 



ADDRESSED TO THE STATES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 



SAVE THE SAGE GROUSE FROM EXTINCTION 



A DEMAND FROM CIVILIZATION TO THE 

 WESTERN STATES 



THIS is a call to the people of the Far West, to save 

 the sage grouse and other grouse, and quail, from 

 complete annihilation. The fate of these species is in the 

 hands of the men who will shape the legislation of the 

 western states during January and February, 1917. The 

 case of the sage grouse is brought forward most prominent- 

 ly, because it is the most conspicuous of the candidates for 

 Oblivion. 



Do the people of the Rocky Mountain and Pacific States 

 wish to see their largest and finest upland game birds fol- 

 low the bison, the passenger pigeon, and the heath hen into 

 oblivion? If they do not, they must act quickly and reso- 

 lutely; for the hour of disappearance now is mighty close 

 at hand. 



We have no doubt that in each one of the eleven sage- 

 grouse states there are men who will say : "There are plenty 

 of sage grouse yet. There is no need for long close seasons. 

 The idea is nonsensical; and the man who advocates it is 

 a crank !" 



To that we answer : Beware ! Do not be fatally deceived, 

 as so many other Americans have been in the past. 



