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cies easily exterminated in any locality that is well hunted. 

 Thus is going the beautiful white mountain sheep of Alaska. 

 Apparently the regulations permit any meat-hunter to kill 

 three head and sell them openly during the open season; 

 and a "dealer" may "dispose" of any number of them "for 

 15 days thereafter." 



End of the Sulzer Bill. — The Sulzer Bill was advocated 

 by Delegate Sulzer, Thomas W. Riggs, Jr., now Governor 

 of Alaska, Charles Sheldon, the Fairbanks (Alaska) Com- 

 mercial Club and the Fairbanks National Defense Council. 



It was opposed by the New York Zoological Society, the 

 Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, the Camp-Fire Club 

 of America, the American Bison Society, the Wilderness 

 Club of Philadelphia, the New Mexico and Albuquerque 

 Game Protective Associations, and the Missouri Fish and 

 Game League. The above organizations were only a tenth 

 part of the opposition that would have lined up had there 

 been any real contest. 



The Sulzer Bill was killed in committee by the pro- 

 nounced disapproval of the House Committee on Territories, 

 aided by the opposition voiced at the hearing of February 

 26, 1918. Apparently all the members of the committee 

 were well aware of the dangerous character of the bill, and 

 were hostile to the whole idea of selling game meat in order 

 to "beat the beef trust" of Fairbanks and Nanina. 



DESTRUCTION OF GAME BY WOLVES. 



From Juneau there now comes testimony regarding the 

 serious slaughter of game by wolves, and a loud call for 

 relief measures. 



Mr. Wright Wenrich is a member of the Southeastern 

 Alaska Fish and Game Club, and he is deeply interested in 

 the protection, increase and proper utilization of Alaskan 

 game. He displays more interest in the subject than any 



