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against wolves, and the restless, migratory habits of the 

 species tend to discourage and thwart the non-migratory 

 wolves. They will last long after the last moose and white 

 sheep have fallen before their two relentless foes, Man and 

 Wolf. 



The Alaskan wolf situation should be taken up by the 

 Federal Government, probed to the bottom, and then the 

 logical measures that need to be taken should be instantly 

 applied and diligently maintained. The case seems very 

 serious and urgent, and delays will prove deadly. 



TWO ALASKAN DEMANDS. 



I. The Free Killing of Alaskan Brown Bears — For some 

 months past various residents of Alaska have been finding 

 fault with the regulations by which the big Alaskan brown 

 bears are protected against commercial killing for their 

 skins and are reserved for pursuit by sportsmen. In justi- 

 fication of this demand it is cited that in certain localities 

 the brown bears are very destructive to cattle. On this 

 account certain people of Alaska call for the removal of the 

 restrictions which now prevent the hide hunters from oper- 

 ating against those animals. The total number of these 

 bears is so small that their extermination could be accom- 

 plished by hide-hunters in a very few years. 



The demand for removing protection from the Alaskan 

 brown bears for the reason that they are destructive to 

 domestic flocks and herds would imply that stock raising 

 has become an important industry in our arctic province. 

 This implication — or fact — will be news to most people in 

 the States. While it may be possible that domestic cattle 

 have been killed on Kadiak Island, and perhaps in other 

 places, by Alaskan brown bears, it is difficult to believe that 

 the cattle industry is so important throughout the habitat 

 of the brown bear group, which stretches all the way from 

 Admiralty Island to the Kobuk River, and the southern end 



