138 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



1. — From this time henceforward, ALL shooting of game 

 must be diminished at least 50 per cent! 



2. — This can best, most easily and most justly be accom- 

 plished by permitting NO man to have a license, or to go 

 hunting, even on his own land, more often than one year out 

 of every two years. 



3. — All licenses to either hunt small game or large game 

 now should be doubled, or even trebled, in price. 



4. — No state that maintains deer-hunting should license 

 any man to kill a deer for a smaller fee than $5. 



5. — A license fee should everywhere, save by bona fide ex- 

 plorers and natives in the far north, be paid on each big 

 game animal killed ; and of all places in which this is neces- 

 sary Alaska needs it most! The existing (non-resident) 

 license fees in Alaska, for everything except the shipment 

 of moose heads, are ridiculous and exterminatory, and if 

 continued for the future, they would be a crime. No Alas- 

 kan will admit this, however, even when the big game of 

 that Territory becomes extinct. 



6. — In view of the cost to the nation of the adequate 

 enforcement of the federal laws for the conservation of wild 

 life, after increasing its rates, each state henceforth should 

 turn over to the federal government, for conservation pur- 

 poses only, ten per cent of its annual receipts from hunting 

 licenses. 



THE ANSWER TO THE OPEN SEASON MENACE 



1. — In various states many open seasons now should be 

 closed from 2 to 10 years each. Full specifications would 

 make a long chapter dealing with each of the 48 states. 

 It should begin with the upland game birds, and embrace 

 many species of birds, — game and pseudo-game, many game 

 mammals, and the fur-bearing animals of many localities. 

 If this is not applied immediately to many fur-bearers in 



