The Sage-Hen 



whose ambition it is 

 to cause two blades 

 of grass to grow 

 where none grew be- 

 fore, must needs 

 abolish the worm- 

 wood. With it goes 

 the Sage Grouse, af- 

 ter the turkey, 

 the largest and most 

 irreclaimable of the 

 American Tet- 

 raonidae. 



There are still 

 Sage Grouse in Cal- 

 ifornia. How long 

 they will remain does 

 not depend so much 

 upon the observance 

 of our fairly decent 

 game laws, as upon 

 the esthetic attitude 

 of that portion of 

 our population which 

 is in contact with the 

 wilderness. If it is 

 deemed a sine qua 

 71011 of human hap- 

 piness to arrange an 

 annual slaughter of 

 these lumbering 

 fowls, they will sure- 

 ly disappear, even 

 though the "bag lim- 

 it" be reduced to one 

 per season. But if 

 our people can be 



brought to see that the glory of the wilderness — that little portion of it 

 still remaining to us — lies in the presence and abundance and happiness 

 of its wild things — not in their destruction — then generations to come may 

 make unceasing pilgrimages to their desert shrines, and they will find 

 these quaint, ungainly, and most diverting fowls in the full enjoyment of 

 their ancient tenure. It's up to us. r6n~ 



Taken in Oregon Photo by Wi 



A DESERT ROSE 



REAR VIEW OF SAGE COCK AT MAXIMUM STAGE OF COURTING ] 



Finley 



