154 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



PROPOSED PRINCIPLES 



1. In the well-settled regions of the United States and 

 Canada, the supply of wild game is nowhere sufficient to 

 render it an important food supply ; and in view of its steady 

 destruction by man, predatory mammals and birds, severe 

 winters and scarcity of food and cover, game killing in those 

 regions must be regarded as a severely limited pastime, 

 and not as an industry in competition with the stock-raiser 

 and the butcher. 



2. In well-settled regions, it is impossible to make bag 

 limits too small, or open seasons too short, for the best 

 continuance of the game supply. 



3. No frontiersman can reasonably be expected either 

 to devise, or to execute, unaided by his Federal Govern- 

 ment, methods for the adequate preservation and incrase 

 of large game. 



4. Well-settled and well-fed regions require game laws 

 of greater stringency than frontier regions. 



5. Frontier and savage regions require to be especially 

 defined on the map, and provided with game laws specially 

 adapted to the needs of their inhabitants and to the avail- 

 able supply of game. 



6. The strict regulation of game-killing in frontier re- 

 gions inures directly to the benefit of the people most de- 

 pendent upon the game for their existence. 



7. The sale of game should not be permitted at any time, 

 anywhere; because all commercialization of wild game and 

 other forms of wild life is thoroughly exterminatory in its 

 effects. 



8. In all countries the rational utilization of game is 

 desirable, but only on a basis that will provide amply and 

 adequately for the perpetuation of the breeding stock. 



9. Regions that are remote from lines of power trans- 

 portation or are, in winter, entirely cut off from supplies 



