CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 



WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE ANIMALS AND BIRDS 



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 IN MSRTHAMBROeA 

 Passenger Pi&eo'* 

 Labraoor Duck 

 Trumpeter Swan 

 Eskimo Curlew 

 Sea. Otter 

 Elepwant 5eAL 

 IN CAUraRli^lA 



Wood Duck 



oharf^-tailed grouse 



Antelope 



Dwarf Elk 



Roosevelt Elk 



Beaver 



completely or nearly 



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Nature has done more 

 for our land than for al- 

 most any other. She 

 has given it vast forests, 

 fertile soil, favorable 

 climate, enormous water 

 power, many minerals, 

 and a wonderful variety 

 of animal life. 



During all the centuries 

 that the Indians lived 

 here before the coming 

 of white men, wild game 



"There is no recovery of an extinct species. . • i. j 4.1, 4.u ' l^" t 



Conservation or devastation — wHch shaU it lUrmsned ttiem tllCir CmCI 



be? Common sense demands the regulation food but in Soite of thlS 

 of hunting in such a way that our wild life ' ^ ' 



will persist as a permanent asset." Western the amOUUt of game WaS 

 Wild Life Call, published by the California <- j j WTVt 



Associated Charities for the Conservation of ^^^t QecreaseQ. Wnen 



Wild Life. our forefathers landed 



upon this continent, it fairly swarmed with animals and birds. 

 With the clearing away of the forests and the settling of 

 the prairies men could not help depriving many wild crea- 

 tures of both their shelter and their food, but this was not 

 the chief cause for their rapid decrease in numbers. Hunt- 

 ers followed them persistently into the wilder hills and 

 mountains, and many, not needed for food, were killed for 

 their furs. 



Now we may travel for days through the remote and still 

 unsettled parts of our country and see very little life of any 



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