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would be a thundering “No!” Says Major J. Stevenson- 
Hamilton in his ‘“‘Animal Life in Africa”: “It is impossible 
to contemplate the use against the lion of any other weapon 
than the rifle.” 
The real sportsmen and naturalists of America are de- 
cidedly opposed to the extermination of the grizzly bear. 
They feel that the wilds of North America are wide enough 
for the accommodation of many grizzlies, without crowding 
the proletariat. A Rocky Mountain without a grizzly upon 
it, or at least a bear of some kind, is only half a mountain— 
commonplace and tame. Put one two-year-old grizzly cub 
upon it, and presto! every cubic yard of its local atmosphere 
reeks with romantic uncertainty and fearsome thrills. 
A few persons have done considerable talking and writing 
about the damage to stock inflicted by bears, but I think 
there is little justification for such charges. Certainly there 
is not one-tenth enough real damage done by bears to justify 
their extermination. At the present time we hear that the 
farmers(!) of Kadiak Island, Alaska, are being seriously 
harassed and damaged by the big Kadiak bear—an animal 
so rare and shy that it is very difficult for a sportsman to 
kill one! JI think the charges against the bears—if the Kadiak 
Islanders ever really have made any—need to be proven, by 
the production of real evidence. 
In the United States, outside of our game preserves, I 
know of not one locality in which grizzly bears are sufficiently 
numerous to justify a sportsman in going out to hunt them. 
The California grizzly, once represented by “Monarch” in 
Golden Gate Park, is almost, if not wholly, extinct. In 
