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VI. NEW CONDITIONS DEMAND NEW MEASURES. 



At the present hour, six things are troubling the game 

 situation in Alaska. Categorically, they are as follows: 



1 — The growing scarcity of game ; 



2- — The destruction of game through the sale of game; 



3 — The destruction of game by wolves ; 



4 — The waste of meat by those who kill game ; 



5 — Utterly inadequate enforcement of the Alaskan game 

 law, and 



6 — Insufficient annual appropriations for an adequate 

 force of wardens. 



Since the passage of the Alaskan game act in 1902 a 

 great deal of water has run under the Alaskan bridge. 

 Conditions today are very different from those that pre- 

 vailed seventeen years ago. Today, with all its wildness, 

 Alaska is far from being the raw territory it then was. 

 New towns and cities have taken their places on the map, 

 new lines of steam transit have been established, and the 

 exploiters are going literally everywhere. The market 

 hunter has been hard at work, and cold-storage plants are 

 not only ready but anxious to handle, on a commercial basis, 

 the moose, mountain sheep and caribou of our arctic 

 province. 



On one point even the men of Alaska and the men of 

 "the East" are in accord. They agree that it is high time 

 to make some improvements in the game situation ; and the 

 obvious conclusion is — a new game act for Alaska. Up to 

 date, this idea has not taken concrete form in Alaska, but 

 at this end of the long trail an effort has been made to 

 establish certain principles as a foundation on which to 

 build. 



After much gathering of facts and opinions, and much 

 correspondence with Alaskans, we formulated and sub- 

 mitted to Hon. James W. Wickersham, Alaskan delegate 



