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remnants are so small, so scattered, so weak and so beset 

 by coyotes, wolves, hawks, sheep, cattle and sheep-herders 

 that even long close seasons can not save them! It was be- 

 cause of just such adverse conditions that the too-late close 

 seasons, of five years and even ten years, could not bring 

 back the heath hen to New Jersey, New York and Massa- 

 chusetts. 



// you are going to save your sage grouse, your sharp- 

 tailed grouse, pinnated grouse, quail, band,-tailed pigeons, 

 aeer and tree squirrels, you have got to act NOW! Even 

 two years from noiv may prove to be entirely too late! 



THE PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS 

 OF THE SAGE GROUSE. 



Let us put on the stand, very briefly, a few witnesses 

 who are competent to testify in this case — the case of The 

 Sage Grouse vs. The People of the West. 



Colorado : 



William C. Bradbury, Railivay Contractor, Railway Build- 

 ing, Denver. 



"Regarding Sage Hen, I have emphatically stated my 

 views on every provocation, and at every opportunity to 

 wedge them in from the sportsman's standpoint. I have 

 shot them in Wyoming, in Utah, in Idaho and almost every 

 other western state, at times when it took long special trips 

 to reach their habitat, and the fact is beyond controversy 

 that unless something on a very broad scale is immediately 

 done, they are doomed to early extinction, for the following 

 reasons : 



First : — The settlement of the West, and the construction 

 of thousands of miles of new roads through the mountains 

 and foothills where they live, and the advent of the auto- 

 mobile, makes them accessible for a couple of days' outing, 

 whereas, formerly, it took as many weeks ; and consequent- 

 ly there are now twenty gunners for them where formerly 

 there was only one. 



Second : — They are large, clumsy birds, and an easy mark 

 in the open, where the remainder of a flock is readily 

 marked down and again flushed by the gunner. 



