THE LEAGUE OF AMERICAN SPORTSMEN. 



OFFICERS OF THE L. A. S. 



President, G. O. Shields, 19 W. 24th St., 

 New York. 



1st Vice-President, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, 

 Washington, D.C. 



2d Vice-President, E. S. Thompson, 144 

 Fifth Ave., New York. 



3d Vice-President, Hon. W. A. Richards, 

 Cheyenne, Wyo. 



4th Vice-President, W. T: Hornaday, 69 

 Wall St., New York. 



jjtk Vice-President, A. A. Anderson, 93 

 Fifth Ave., New York. 



Secretary, Arthur F. Rice, 155 Pennington 

 Ave., Passaic, N. J. 



Treasurer, F. S. Hyatt, National Exchange 

 Bank, 90 West Broadway, New York. 



NEW YORK DIVISION. 

 A. E. Pond, Chief Warden, 124 5th Ave., 

 New York City. 



PENNSYLVANIA DIVISION. 

 Hon. J. O. H. Denny, Chief Warden, 

 Ligonier. 



NEW JERSEY DIVISION. 

 T. H. Keller, Chief Warden, Plainfield. 



MASSACHUSETTS DIVISION. 

 Dr. Heber Bishop, Chief Warden, No. 4 

 Post Office Square, Boston. 



CONNECTICUT DIVISION. 

 Ralph B. Lawton, Chief Warden, Bridge- 

 port. 



MICHIGAN DIVISION. 



J. Elmer Pratt, Chief Warden, Grand 

 Rapids. 



MONTANA DIVISION. 



Dr. E. F. Coyningham, Chief Warden, 

 Butte City. 



WASHINGTON DIVISION. 



J. S. Stangroom, Chief Warden, New 

 Whatcom. 



TO SAVE THE FORESTS. 



Keene, N. H. 



Editor Recreation: A gray eagle meas- 

 uring 7 feet, from tip to tip of wings, was 

 shot by a farmer 10 miles from here, and 

 has been on exhibition in the city. Are not 

 such birds rare enough to be protected, 

 rather than shot? This seemed to me a 

 good text for a short L. A. S. sermon, in 

 Recreation. It is hard for the average 

 farmer to combine the aesthetic with the 

 utilitarian; but the process of education is 

 going on, and here the League has one of 

 its grandest opportunities. 



And may I not put in a plea, before the 

 organization of an L. A. S. division in New 

 Hampshire, that an effort be made in the 

 initial make-up of its officers, to secure men 



thoroughly committed to forestry preserva- 

 tion? Nothing seems to me of more prac- 

 tical importance, and I was both surprised 

 and delighted to find it a plank in the L. A. 

 S. platform. Probably no state in the 

 Union would benefit more from proper 

 forestry regulations, than the Granite State; 

 but the legislation thus far secured has been 

 meagre and unsatisfactory. In this part of 

 the State there has been such a demand for 

 pine and other timber, for wood-working 

 establishments, that old growth woods are 

 quite rare, and it is positively painful to 

 drive or wheel through so much denuded 

 territory. 



The old inhabitants will tell you that 

 more " sprout land " is being allowed to 

 grow up than the territory that is being 

 stripped; but it is a fact that it is a rare 

 thing for the greedy lumberman to allow 

 his pines to get much beyond the sapling 

 stage. As soon as they can be converted 

 into money, he feels his palms itching for 

 the axe helve. 



Of course such skinning of land is all 

 wrong in principle, even though it be al- 

 lowed to grow up again, being in the long 

 run a most wasteful procedure. And our 

 diminishing rainfall is another evidence of 

 the harm being wrought. 



People familiar with the White mountain 

 attractions know how much will depend, for 

 them, on the care of the forests for the next 

 50 years. Yet the brigandage of the lum- 

 bermen continues unabated! 



Edward W. Wild. 



I see no strong reason for the special pro- 

 tection of the eagle, in a State like New 

 Hampshire. The species is not systemati- 

 cally hunted; and it would be better to 

 expend one's energies in working for the 

 better protection of the long list of miscel- 

 laneous game birds, that are being extermi- 

 nated. Nevertheless, it would be a great 

 pity for the eagle to become extinct, even 

 though it does carry off a lamb now and 

 then. 



Why don't you join the League, Brother 

 Wild, and help, organize the New Hamp- 

 shire Division, with a view to the proper 

 protection of your forests? — Editor. 



HE WANTED A SALARY. 



One F. G. Flower, of Butte, Montana, 

 is roaming up and down that State spread- 

 ing himself over sundry sheets of writing 

 paper, postal cards and telegraph blanks 

 reviling the League of American Sports- 

 men and its officers. This man Flower 

 wrote me he was a candidate for Chief 

 Warden of the State, and that he was 



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