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Funds for an adequate protective system, and an 

 adequate number of game wardens. 



No attacks to be made on any sea birds for their 

 systematic destruction. 



5. For the working out of an entirely new Alaskan game 

 act, an unofficial committee of five persons to take tes- 

 timony and evolve a comprehensive plan, would be the 

 logical initiative. On this committee there should be two 

 Alaskans, familiar with conditions, but in no way in- 

 terested in the commercial exploitation of Alaskan game. 



VII. A CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRAM. 



We have not entered into a discussion of the whole game 

 situation in Alaska. That subject is too wide for anything 

 less than a volume. From an array of Alaskan books, arti- 

 cles, reports, letters and telegrams, and from conferences 

 with many Alaskans, a great mass of facts now lies before 

 us. Presumably other persons interested in Alaska are 

 similarly provided. 



Our interest in the wild life of Alaska began in 1880. 

 Ever since that year, even though "Mr. Hornaday never 

 has been to Alaska," he has followed with unflagging in- 

 terest and industry the varying fortunes of the wild life 

 of our great Arctic province. 



As we pointed out at the beginning, certain new activities 

 now demand new measures ; and it seems that a new game 

 act for all Alaska has become an urgent necessity. From 

 the facts already in hand, certain logical conclusions rise 

 into notice, and will now be put down. They, not I, pro- 

 pose the following program of procedure: 



It is perfectly clear that there are today several condi- 

 tions in the game situation in Alaska that stand in need of 

 radical improvement. I think that those conditions and 

 improvements may be listed, in the order of their impor- 

 tance, as follows : 



