BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 199 



"Mr. Hornaday, couldn't I have my land, and my brother's 

 also, made a game reserve, by the government? We have 

 640 acres, and if it were made a reserve, the birds would 

 increase. 



"The time ivill soon be here when the sage hens are gone! 

 They do not migrate, and so are not protected under the 

 migratory bird law. Some of the people in this state are 

 lawless! Some of them defy every game law. They hunt 

 ducks all winter, fish through the ice, catch trout by the oat- 

 sack full, and shoot deer any time of the year they want to. 

 The hunters come in here literally by the train-load to shoot, 

 and they don't stop shooting until every flying creature lies 

 at their feet. 



"It is not for our own use that we want to preserve the 

 birds. We do not eat them. We prefer to see them alive. 

 It is for the country that we wish to save them. We are 

 Americans, and it is a disgrace to see the wild life destroyed 

 by men whose one thought is a big bag. 



"If you can do anything in this matter, or suggest what 

 we could do, I trust you will let me know." 



Leroy C. Jones, State Game Warden, Boise. 



"Our people would not be in sympathy with an entire 

 closed season on sage hen, but I believe we can bring about 

 a move in the next Legislature that will give our birds better 

 protection. We are going to insist on cutting down the 

 limit to less than half, and make the open season a little 

 later, giving the bird a better chance to protect himself. 

 Under the present system of operating the Game Depart- 

 ment, if we close the season on the game birds or animals 

 indefinitely we would have no fund with w T hich to operate 

 the Department. We fully realize the need of protection, 

 and believe it can be done by reducing the limit and making 

 the open season a little later." 



D. W. Stanrod, Jr., Lawyer, Pocatello. 



"There has been very little hunting in the southern coun- 

 ties this year, and I find that through the efforts of our local 

 game warden, and the sportsmen in this county and several 

 of the northern counties, (that is, north of here) , that the 

 hunting has been reduced to a minimum. A resolution was 

 passed through our appeals to the effect that the automobile 

 and pump guns would be taboo, and this has had its effect 



