THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



seasons of the different game birds and mammals of the state so 

 that a basis for sane game laws may be secured. 



Among the other good things in this issue of California 

 Fish and Game, Dr. Bryant starts his first editorial with the right 

 ring, namely, that education is the effective method toward bet- 

 ter game protection. 



"There are two ways of enforcing laws — one is to punish 

 violators, and the other is to educate people to a realization of 

 the need and value of the law so that public sentiment demands 

 its observance. The former method was used in the time of Nero 

 and still needs to be used for the laggers of civilization. The 

 relative value of the 'rule with an iron hand' and the 'rule with 

 reason' has been too often discussed to use space for it here. The 

 thing to be noted is that the California Fish and Game Commission 

 is beginning a campaign of education in an endeavor to so edu- 

 cate public opinion that protective laws may in the future become 

 relatively unimportant. Most of the violators of the game laws 

 if brought to a real appreciation of the law itself and the need 

 for it. would obey rather than disobey the law." 



COUGAR BOUNTIES IN CALIFORNIA. 



Several interesting facts are contained in the report of the 

 California Fish and Game Commission with reference to the 

 bounties paid by the commission on mountain lions or cougars 

 from October. 1907, to June 30, 1914. In the first place, it shows 

 t'ne number of these predatory animals is constantly decreasing 

 under the war of extermination being waged against them. In 

 ihe second place it shows the two counties in the state having 

 more of these animals than any others are Humboldt and Trinity. 

 two counties very close to the Oregon line. This calls attention 

 to the necessity of the continued co-operation on the part of the 

 Oregon commission with that of California in the effort to exter- 

 minate the cougar. 



The figures given in the report are for 48 counties. In each 

 of six of these, but one animal has been killed during the entire 

 period. In the other counties the number ranges from three to 

 418. Tn nearly every county thorc has been a decrease from year 



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