PERMANENT WILD LIFE PROTECTION 



FUND 



BULLETIN No. 6 FEBRUARY 15, 1920 



PUBLISHED FOR THE INFORMATION OF CONGRESS 



A NEW GAME ACT FOR ALASKA 



The lapse of time and changed conditions in Alaska now 

 render it the bounden duty of the American people and 

 their Congress to consider and act anew upon the business 

 of practical game conservation in that Territory. 



PUBLIC INTERESTS IN ALASKA 



If newspaper reports are as true as they usually are, 

 then it is a fact that some of the people of Alaska strongly 

 resent the Territorial status of that province and demand 

 full statehood. As night follows day, this insures resent- 

 ment of "eastern" influence in the utilization of the wild 

 game of Alaska. From Governor Riggs downward that 

 feeling now exists and persists, particularly from Valdez 

 northward. 



Now, the natural impulse of the citizen of New York and 

 elsewhere in The States would be to think and to say : 



"If a majority of the people of Alaska really desire to 

 exterminate their food supply of wild game, let them go 

 ahead and do it. We can stand the consequences if they 

 can." 



But that is not the way to carry the white man's burden 

 of conservation. Men who are chosen, either by natural 



