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(2) How can wastefulness be prevented? 



(3) How can the continuity of supply be insured? 



The moment we undertake to conserve big game in the 

 northern two-thirds of Alaska, which is north of the 62nd 

 parallel of latitude, we come up against some strenuous 

 demands for the sale of game. Fairbanks now is the storm- 

 centre of a new demand, for the sale of game all the year 

 round instead of in the open season only. Most Alaskans 

 believe that the game of Alaska belongs to the people of 

 that territory, that they should administer it as they think 

 best, and, above all, that the sale of game is not only right, 

 but absolutely necessary. 



In 1918, it was noted that the laws of the United States 

 were permitting the sale of moose, mountain sheep and 

 caribou meat during the open season for hunting, every- 

 where in Alaska north of latitude 62°, and that, during 

 the year 1917, 6,000 pounds of big game meat lawfully 

 had been fed to the laborers employed in the construction 

 of the Alaska Central railway, actually under the super- 

 vision of the present Governor of Alaska. That large figure 

 was given by Mr. Thomas Riggs himself, then Alaskan 

 Railway Commissioner, at the hearing on the Sulzer bill, 

 in Congress on March 5, 1918. 



The Sulzer bill proposed that mountain sheep, moose and 

 caribou meat should be sold all the year round, everywhere 

 north of latitude 62°, and it was ardently supported by Mr. 

 Riggs and the people of Fairbanks. The Sulzer bill prom- 

 ised to be so destructive to the big game of Alaska that it 

 was easily killed. The episode emphasized with new force 

 the fact that a new game act of Alaska now has become an 

 absolute necessity, and must be worked out in the near 

 future. 



LIVING CONDITIONS IN THE NORTH 



Every conservator of American big game is at least par- 

 tially aware of the conditions that surround white people 



