Vol. XIX, No. 6 



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June, 1908 



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ONE SEASON'S GAME-BAG WITH THE 



CAMERA* 



By Hon. George Shiras, 3rd 



Mr Shiras' achievements with the camera and the flashlight have encouraged 

 many big-game hunters and held naturalists to adopt these methods of pursuing 

 or studying wild life. When serving as a member of Congress Mr Shiras devoted 

 much time to preparing or advocating measures designed to permanently conserve 

 the birds, animals, and fish of our country. One bill putting under Federal con- 

 trol the migratory wild fowl and another extending governmental supervision 

 over fish in the tidal waters, the Great Lakes, and interstate rivers, have received 

 the hearty approval of the leading game and fish protective associations in the 

 United States and Canada, while the author's extensive brief in support of such 

 constitutional power has met with the approbation of many leading jurists and 

 lawyers. Within the next year active steps will be taken to have these bills 

 enacted into law. — Editor 



ABOUT two years ago the writer 

 contributed an article to the 

 National Geographic Maga- 

 zine upon "Photographing Wild Game 

 with Camera and Flashlight," f the pur- 

 pose of which was to show what an ad- 

 mirable substitute the camera is for the 

 gun in the skillful pursuit of wild life 

 and in the capture of trophies much more 

 enduring and attractive to the hunter, his 

 friends, or the public, than where the 

 animal or bird paid the forfeit of its life 

 in the game of hide and seek. 



The old doctrine of the frontiersman, 

 trapper, explorer, or remote home- 

 steader, that the edibility of certain wild 

 creatures justified their destruction, was 

 and is still a rational one, when we con- 

 sider how human life has been sustained 



* Copyright, 1908, by George Shiras, 3rd. 



or the otherwise limited larder of those 

 in the wilderness bountifully varied by 

 the model, ite taking of game animals 

 and birds. To a considerably less degree 

 we may ascribe some reason to the 

 thrifty market hunter who turns his 

 ducks into dollars or moose meat into 

 money, since he seldom kills or abandons 

 a mountain of flesh for the sake of a pair 

 of antlers or for the temporary gratifica- 

 tion of an accurately placed bullet in an 

 animal so tough or so remote from civili- 

 zation that its flesh cannot be utilized. 



But how about the modern sportsman 

 who hunts for the love of sport and the 

 freedom that comes with a trip into the 

 wilderness? Are the antlers of an aban- 

 doned and festering stag to be recog- 

 nized as a trophy of unsullied honor, 



fWith 72 illustrations, July, 19064 



