OF THE LARGE AMERICAN MAMMALS 205 
Northwestern Alberta: Grizzly bear, big-horn and moun- 
tain goat. 
Under existing conditions I regard the above-named 
hunting-grounds as practically all in which it is right or fair 
for big-game hunting now to be permitted, even on a strict 
basis. Nearly all others should immediately be closed, for 
large game, for five years or longer. 
Of course, such a proceeding, if carried into effect, would 
provoke loud protests from sportsmen, gunners, game-hogs, 
pot-hunters and others; but I wish that we had the power to 
carry such a programme as that into effect! Then we would 
see some game in ten years; and our -grandchildren would 
thank us for having made effective some real big-game pro- 
tection at a critical period. 
Except in the few localities just mentioned, I regard the 
big-game situation in the United States and southern Canada 
as particularly desperate. Unless there is an immediate and 
complete revolution in this country from an era of slaughter 
to an era of preservation, as sure as the sun rises on the mor- 
row this generation of Americans and near-Americans will 
live to see our country swept clean of big game, outside of the 
hard-and-fast game preserves, and places like Maine and the 
Adirondacks. 
Even two years ago I did not believe this; but I do now. 
It is impossible to exaggerate the wide extent or the serious- 
ness of this situation. In a country where any and every 
individual can rise and bluster, ‘‘ I’m-just-as-good-as-you-are,”’ 
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and bellow for his ‘‘rights” as a ‘“‘taxpayer,” there is no 
stopping the millions who have a legal right to kill whenever 
