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Crater Lake parks. Visitors to these preserves are not al- 

 lowed to carry any guns, and wardens constantly patrol 

 them. 



The Ufe of the Yellowstone Park is wonderfully interest- 

 ing. Here we find droves of many of the animals that were 

 in danger of becoming extinct. Among them are the buf- 

 falo, elk, and antelope. Here the grizzly and all the lesser 

 bears are safe from the hunter. They have almost lost 

 their fear of man and come about the camps and hotels for 

 food, as the domestic animals do. In the park are some 

 colonies of beaver, too, which will never again be disturbed 

 by the fur hunter. On the higher peaks are a few Rocky 

 Mountain sheep. 



Another way in which we are protecting the wild animals 

 is by making it legal to hunt them during only a short time 

 each year. This is called the "open season." In the case 

 of some of the animals that are nearly extinct we have made 

 a "closed season" extending through a number of years. 

 With this protection we are hoping that they will be saved 

 and sometime become numerous again. All our states 

 have made game laws which give more or less protection 

 to the deer, elk, moose, antelope, squirrel, and other ani- 

 mals. In the case of some of these animals the females 

 are absolutely protected, and the number of the males — 

 as of the deer, for example — that may be killed in a season 

 is often as small as two, and in two states it is only one. 

 A heavy fine is imposed upon any one killing the protected 

 animals or having their meat in his possession. 



We are trying to protect the birds in much the same 

 manner as the wild animals. But because of their migra- 

 tions this is much more difficult. Many kinds of birds 



