THE RATIONAL USE OF GAME ANIMALS 

 By W. T. Horn ad ay 



An Address delivered at the Canadian National Conference 

 on Game and Wild Life Conservation held at Ottawa, 



Feb. 18-19, 1919 



THE words "rational utilization of game" immediately 

 send my thoughts travelling into a region where the 

 rational utilization of game has now become more than ever 

 a burning question. I refer to the regions of the far north, 

 sometimes called the inhospitable regions of the north, 

 where the wild game of the country constitutes each year a 

 very important part of the solid food of the white popula- 

 tion. It is not my purpose to enter in detail into a consider- 

 ation of the needs and the rights of the Eskimo, Indians, 

 and wild tribes of that region ; I am thinking mostly of the 

 white population. We know that white settlements are 

 pushing further and further into Alaska and northern Can- 

 ada. We know that conditions are changing rapidly these 

 days — in Alaska, at least. Conditions have so changed dur- 

 ing the past ten years that it is now time to take thought 

 for the morrow and proceed along new lines. 



WILD LIFE IN THE HANDS OF MAN 



In every new country man struggles mightily to harmon- 

 ize with his environment and survive. Naturally, it is the 

 newest countries that contain the most wild life. It is the 

 way of the average frontiersman to make war on the game, 

 and war on every man who seriously attempts to protect it 

 from his onslaughts. In every country, new or old, the 

 utilization of the wild game, and its perpetuation or extinc- 





