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RECREATION. 



officers who served during 1901, and in 

 electing Austin Corbin to serve as treasurer 

 during said year 1902. 



Almighty God, in his wisdom, has seen 

 fit to take from us one of our truest and 

 best friends and one of the most earnest 

 workers in our great cause, and we deem 

 it well to record or.r sorrow in so far as 

 words can express it. Therefore, 



Resolved, by the League of American 

 Sportsmen, in annual meeting assembled, 

 that in the death of Albert E. Pond, a char- 

 ter member and Chief Warden of the New 

 York Division, this League has lost one of 

 its most devoted and faithful workers, and 

 the birds and the wild animals have lost 

 one of their best friends. 



In paying to the memory of our de- 

 parted brother this, our last tribute of re- 

 spect, we tender to his bereaved family 

 our sincere sympathy in their great loss. 

 May he who noteth even the sparrow's 

 fall send peace and consolation to the 

 bereaved family of our lost comrade. 



Offered by Mr. F. A. Pontius: 



Alaska is the greatest game country re- 

 maining on this continent. It is the home 

 of several species of our grandest Ameri- 

 can wild animals; yet they are being rap- 

 idly swept out of even that remote coun- 

 try. Miners, prospectors, market hunters 

 and skin hunters, inspired by unprin- 

 cipled fur dealers and taxidermists, have 

 almost fixed the date when the last moose, 

 the last caribou and the last mountain 

 sheep in Alaska shall have followed their 

 kinsmen into oblivion. 



A bill is now pending in Congress which 

 aims to stop this reckless slaughter; to stop 

 the sale of game in Alaska, and the ship- 

 ment of heads and skins from that Terri- 

 tory. Therefore, 



Resolved, by the League of American 

 Sportsmen, in annual meeting assembled, 

 that we deeply deplore the reckless slaugh- 

 ter of our noble wild animals in Alaska 

 and we earnestly beseech our Senators and 

 Representatives in Congress to pass this 

 bill at the earliest possible date. 



This was offered by Mr. Harry E. Lee: 



Whereas, the elk, which a few years 

 ago was abundant throughout Colorado, 

 Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and 

 Washington, has almost disappeared from 

 these States, and 



Whereas, the only large band remain- 

 ing anywhere is that ranging in and about 

 the Yellowstone National Park, and 



Whereas, it has been effectually dem- 

 onstrated that these great numbers of elk 

 can not live in the Yellowstone Park, as 

 now constituted, through the winter 

 months, and 



Whereas, these great bands of elk can 



not be afforded proper protection outside 

 the legal limits of the Park, and 



Whereas, all the best of the former elk 

 range in the Jackson Hole country has been 

 and is being fenced up by ranchmen, thus 

 cutting off nearly all the former winter 

 range of these elk, and 



Whereas, these great bands of elk are 

 threatened with starvation in the near fu- 

 ture, therefore, 



The League of American Sportsmen, in 

 annual meeting assembled, representing 

 all the States and Territories of the Union, 

 requests and implores the Congress of the 

 United States to immediately provide for 

 the extension of the limits of the Yellow- 

 stone Park South and East, to include the 

 adjacent timber reserves, and so much 

 other country as may be necessary to pro- 

 vide an adequate winter range for the elk 

 and the other wild animals in the Park. 



The following was offered by Mr. Chas. 

 Paine: 



Whereas, game of all kinds is being 

 rapidly exterminated in the United States, 

 and 



Whereas, State laws and State game 

 wardens have been found incapable of pre- 

 venting the complete extermination of 

 many valuable species, and 



Whereas, we believe the only possible 

 means of saving the elk, the mountain 

 sheep, the bear, the antelope and the mule 

 deer from total annihilation within a few 

 years is by the intervention of the general 

 government, and 



Whereas, certain of our good and wise 

 chief magistrates have created several im- 

 portant timber reserves in the mountain 

 ranges of the Western States, and 



Whereas, a bill is now pending in Con- 

 gress which aims to make absolute game 

 preserves of certain of these timber re- 

 serves, therefore, 



The League of American Sportsmen, in 

 annual meeting assembled, does hereby 

 petition and urge upon all members of 

 Congress their favorable consideration of 

 this measure; and we respectfully beseech 

 these Senators and Congressmen to pass 

 the same as soon as possible. 



The present generation has seen the buf- 

 falo, the most noble and once the most nu- 

 merous of all of our wild animals, wiped 

 out of existence, with the exception of a 

 few that were rescued from the passing 

 throng by thoughtful men and that are 

 now held and cared for in domestication. 

 One of these small bands of buffaloes is 

 owned by the heirs of Charles Allard,in the 

 Flathead valley of Montana. Therefore: 



The League of American Sportsmen, 

 in annual meeting assembled, humbly 

 petitions the Congress of the United 

 States to take prompt and vigorous mea^ 



