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RECREATION. 



augurated long ago. There are sections of 

 this country where game laws are almost 

 unknown, and many highly interesting 

 colonies of birds are in imminent danger 

 of destruction. 



A thoroughly alive and business-like L. 

 A. S. is greatly needed. The materials for 

 it are abundant on every hand. Its work 

 is cut out for it by the bird and game de- 

 stroyers, and when once in the field it will 

 never be out of a job! I wish the move- 

 ment God-speed, with all my heart, and 

 will gladly contribute time, labor and 

 money toward its success. 



William T. Hornaday, 

 Director New York Zoological Park. 



Editor Recreation: Your October 

 number to hand and I have read it through 

 carefully. It is needless to say Recrea- 

 tion is good. That is something that is 

 thrown up to you every day in the week. I 

 shall never deprive myself the extreme 

 pleasure I get from its perusal, so long as 

 I am able to raise the $. 

 * I was much interested in the article by 

 Mr. Lydecker, on the forming of a L. A. 

 S. A world of good could be accomplished 

 by an organization of this kind; and I be- 

 lieve every true sportsman in the land 

 would put his shoulder to the wheel and 

 help such a movement. 



There is great need of such a power, right 

 here. Our woods are full of settlers who 

 live, year after year, by the unlawful killing 

 of game, and if something is not done, in 

 the near future, to stop their slaughter one 

 of the finest deer, grouse and trout grounds 

 in the Northwest will soon become a desert, 

 so far as fish and game are concerned. We 

 have game wardens, but of what use are 

 they? They are wardens merely in name. 

 What we want is an organization that will 

 make a crusade against law breakers and 

 game hogs, from the Atlantic to the Pa- 

 cific. 



Chas. F. Hickok, Grand Marais, Mich. 



I have read with great interest an article 

 by Mr. R. D. Lydecker, in October Rec- 

 reation. The plan he outlines should 

 meet with the hearty approval of all true 

 sportsmen; for unless we bestir ourselves 

 to properly protect the game and fish, little 

 will be left 5 years hence. 



Such a National Association would be of 

 the utmost service in co-operating with 

 state officers for the protection of the game 

 of the whole country. 



No private citizen likes to file an infor- 

 mation against a neighbor for violating the 

 game law; but organize a National Associa- 

 tion, in connection with the various state 

 and local associations and every member 

 would feel in honor bound to see the law 

 enforced. Not only this, but the various 



states could co-operate and thus stop all 

 spring shooting of wild fowl. Unless this 

 is prevented they will soon be extermi- 

 nated. 



I most heartily concur in Mr. Lydecker's 

 plan, and if I can be of any service in pro- 

 moting it count me in. 



W. M. Kennedy, 

 Pres. Board of Game Commissioners of Pa. 



Olympia, Wash. 



Editor Recreation: I endorse the sug- 

 gestion of R. D. Lydecker, in October Rec- 

 reation, proposing a League of American 

 Sportsmen. I believe such a national or- 

 ganization would soon show a membership 

 of 250,000. Certainly all lovers of rod and 

 gun would enroll as members. Think of 

 the good that could be accomplished! 

 With members of such a league scattered 

 throughout the land, backed by a strong 

 central organization, the pot hunters and 

 fish hogs could be looked after, and whole- 

 some and beneficial legislation could be 

 much more easily secured than otherwise. 

 By all means, let us have a L. A. S., and 

 when the initiative is taken, I want to be 

 enrolled among the first. 



I hope Recreation will push this work. 

 Even though the initiative is taken now, it 

 will require 2 to 3 years to properly estab- 

 lish the League, in the various states. 



Will D. Jenkins, Secretary of State. 



With deep pleasure I read Mr. Lydeck- 

 er's proposal to form a L. A. S. If some- 

 thing is not done in the near future to pro- 

 tect our fish and game, good sport will 

 soon be a thing of the past. Idaho and 

 Wyoming afford the best fishing and hunt- 

 ing grounds in the United States, to-day; 

 but even here the game is being driven 

 farther and farther back into the moun- 

 tains, and killed off more and more, each 

 year; while you are now in luck to get a 

 rise, in streams which, a few years ago, 

 abounded with trout. 



By all means let us have the L. A. S., and 

 by concerted action and a wise and well- 

 administered set of laws insure, to our- 

 selves and to posterity, an abundance of the 

 sport which we now enjoy. 



M. A. Bates, Star, Idaho. 



I wish to raise my voice in favor of a L. 

 A. S. I am with Mr. Lydecker and Rec- 

 reation, heart and hand, in the protection 

 of our fish and game. 



I can say truly, that in 16 years spent on 

 the frontier, or in Texas, and that at a time 

 when the noblest of all American animals, 

 the buffalo, were being so indiscriminately 

 slaughtered, I saw nothing that would com- 

 pare with the destruction now being 



