26 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 
EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGN ADVOCATED > 
By Warven J. B. Hazettine, Baker, Oregon. 
The money expended by the Oregon Fish and Game Commission 
at the various hatcheries and State Game Farm has in my opinion 
been of double value. In the first place it has supplied the need of 
restocking our hills and streams and secondly and of greater impor- 
tance is the fact that it has brought the sportsmen nearer to the offi- 
cials in charge of the enforcement of the game laws and in place of 
the old feeling of persecution it has brought about cooperation in the 
matter of better protection for game of all kinds. 
The reorganization of the fish and game department a few years 
since and their efforts to make shipments of fish and birds to the re- 
mote places of the state tended to make the sportsman feel his 
responsibility in the matter of taking care of the little birds and fish 
and not only seeing that they were distributed judicially in his par- 
ticular section but that due protection was given them afterward. 
Rod and gun clubs were organized generally over the state not for the 
purpose of trap shooting altogether but to have some systematic 
means of raising money to cover charges of transportation, from the 
various railroad points, on game sent by the Commission for distribu- 
tion in the various localities. This also had double value in that every 
one who became a member, whether he hunted or angled or not, had 
a personal interest on account of the fact that his money had assisted 
in distribution and therefore he at once became a booster for better 
protection. 
The idea of an educational campaign to bring about better pro- 
tection for game throughout the state was indeed a very beneficial 
move, I am sure. In former times, before the advent of the game 
license fee, the fund of course was nominal with which the State 
Game Warden had to be very careful in order to make ends meet as 
it were ana many sections of the country had to get along with very 
little notice, especially the more thinly settled portions, which is the 
case in my territory, and if a man was sent out it was with the idea 
that unless he made a number of arrests his time was short; for this 
reason he sneaked around making arrests on the least provocation and 
thereby gaining the enmity of all sportsmen in the section, and was 
generally looked upon by people as about the lowest type of humanity 
possible and conditions, relative to better protection, were worse than 
ever when he got through with a section. 
I have worked on another plan, that of making the sportsman 
know that a game warden should be the servant and not the enemy 
and that it was the duty of every good sportsman to give information 
to the warden of flagrant violations. This plan has worked out suc- 
cessfully in my territory and although I have found it necessary to 
make a number of arrests I have received the information in each 
instance from another and not “red handed” as it were. 
However much better conditions are in my territory I do not take 
the credit on any particular efforts of my own, as I believe the Com- 
mission are directly responsible. To cite an instance will say that 
there was a Mr. X who had always been a violator of the game laws 
at all times. Well he had a shipment of Chinese Pheasants liberated 
on his ranch. I happened to be out there some time afterward and 
he was taking great interest indeed in them, had fed them all winter 
and in the meantime suffered a great change of heart, and as near as 
I can remember the reason he gave was about like this: “I have 
