BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 219 



facts in the case. If it were possible to reach the masses 

 of true sportsmen throughout the western states with the 

 indisputable facts regarding the sage grouse situation, we 

 have no doubt whatever that they would immediately move 

 for adequate measures of protection. 



But who is going to put forth the effort that would be 

 necessary to place this situation clearly and fully before all 

 the members of the grand army of western sportsmen? 

 Such an effort, to be successful, would require a years' time 

 and a very considerable expenditure of labor and of money. 

 Is it necessary that it should be made at the expense of the 

 fast vanishing grouse ? We hold that it is not ; and that each 

 state legislature of the states west of the Mississippi will be 

 amply justified in immediately enacting a six-year close sea- 

 son law for its sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, pinnated 

 grouse and all other species of upland game birds that now 

 are in danger of extermination. 



In behalf of the sage grouse, and all the other grouse, 

 quail and ptarmigan of the West, we now demand that they 

 be saved from extinction by legislative action in 1917, in the 

 form of new laws providing close seasons of from 6 to 10 

 years ; and no half-way measures are requested or desired. 



