34 GAME REFUGES. 



Dr. Hornaday. No, sir; I am speaking from the testimony of Mr. 

 George Shiras, 3d, who has been over every portion of that section 

 of the country. He knows a good deal more about it than any other 

 man living. 



Mr. Mondell. George Shiras went into that country at my sug- 

 gestion. I told him of the moose along the upper Yellowstone River 

 in and south of the park, and how the State of Wyoming had been 

 protecting them. Wyoming had been protecting the herd for years 

 before Mr. Shiras went there at my suggestion. I know that coun- 

 try thoroughly. I have been over it frequently, and most of the 

 moose in that region and most of that moose country is in the part 

 of the State of Wyoming south of the pajk. I am surprised to hear 

 it suggested Mr. Shiras or anyone made a discovery of moose in that 

 section 10 years ago. We have known they were there and pro- 

 tected them. 



Mr. Jacoway. Mr. Mondell, suppose you let Dr. Hornaday finish 

 his remarks, and then we will give you another chance. 



Dr. Hornaday. I was proceeding to say that the moose were dis- 

 covered in the southwestern corner of the Yellowstone National 

 Park. That was the first information that came to me. I followed 

 that up subsequently by every means in my power. Of course it 

 is possible that some of my information was wrong. It would be 

 strange if it were not. 



I have become anxious to see the moose become a permanent 

 resident of the Yellowstone National Park. Mr. Shiras made an 

 extensive exploration for moose about three years ago, and most of 

 his work was done in the Yellowstone National Park. His articles 

 were published in Forest and Stream, all of which is a matter of 

 record. Now, the moose have increased and spread into State 

 territory outside of the Yellowstone National Park, and, more is the 

 pity, the State of Wyoming has recently granted an open season on 

 that remnant of moose. In my opinion it is little short of crime to 

 make war upon that little herd of moose there, where they are strug- 

 gling against extermination, simply in the name of "sport." 



Mr. Mondell. At the request of eastern sportsmen they allowed 

 the killing of 50 moose in one year. 



Dr. Hornaday. I do not believe that any eastern sportsman 

 worthy of the name ever preferred such a request. If one has ever 

 done so, I would like to have his name. 



Now, take another State, the State of Colorado. Colorado has 

 been for years quite a good game-protecting State. She had in the 

 first instance a magnificent stock of big game. It included prac- 

 tically all species of big game common to the West, both of the moun- 

 tains and the plains, and what is the situation to-day? 



I remember that in 1900 the question of the deer as a food supply 

 was brought to my attention by the slaughter of about 8,000 black- 

 tail deer for food in Routt County. Now, 8,000 blacktail deer made 

 a pretty good item in the food supply of that portion of Colorado 

 in that year. But what is the case to-day in Colorado in regard to 

 hunting big game % 



The big game species of Colorado have so completely disappeared, 

 as game to be hunted, that to-day the State game commissioner, Mr. 

 W. B. Frazer, publishes the fact that there is "no open season on 

 deer, elk, mountain sheep, antelopes, wild turkey, quail, or pheasants/' 



