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To the above we well may add the beaver, wolverine, 

 fisher, marten, mink and fox, all of them now so rare that 

 in the United States the trapping of fur is practically a 

 lost art, and has degenerated into the pursuit of the hum- 

 ble muskrat and malodorous skunk. 



With the convening of Congress in 1915, a bill will be 

 presented to provide the legislation necessary to the suc- 

 cessful creation of National Forest game preserves. Dur- 

 ing the intervening months we will try to map out a cam- 

 paign equal to the occasion. The undertaking now con- 

 templated will be no child's play. It should be inaugurated 

 in the enemy's country, — the Rocky Mountain states, and 

 absent treatment will not alone suffice. It is possible that 

 an unusual campaign of education and exhortation will be 

 made, personally conducted, in the strongholds of the op- 

 position. 



But we feel that at last the hour has arrived. We believe 

 that the harvest is now ready, and that the period of blind 

 groping after real game conservation in our national for- 

 ests should come to an end. 



Incidentally, we are glad that the income of the Perma- 

 nent Fund can contribute substantially to the expenses of 

 this campaign; though how other campaigns can be mate- 

 rially assisted at the same time we do not know. 



