PRESENT RANGE OF THE PABLO-ALLARD HERD, SHADED AREA SHOWING ''RECREATIOnV 

 PROPOSED GOVERNMENT BUFFALO RESERVATION. 



seems unaffected by inbreeding. It is, there- 

 fore, quite possible that were a sufficient 

 number gathered together in a suitable range, 

 protected, and left to lead a natural life, in- 

 stead of hundreds, in a generation or two 

 there will be thousands. 



But the Federal government can alone 

 bring this to pass. The undertaking is too 

 strenuous for the private citizen, or prob- 

 ably for any society that could be found 

 having such an object in view. A large tract 

 of suitable land, like that in the Flathead 



reservation, remote from settlement, suited 

 to the needs of the animals, together with 

 stringent protective legislation, backed up by 

 an organized buffalo guard, is necessary. 



Laws are admirable, but have merely an 

 academic interest when there is no provision 

 for their enforcement. A live buffalo is 

 worth $1000 or even more and a dead one 

 almost as much. For such a sum men will 

 take many chances ; hence the need of buffalo 

 guards, if the last of the herds are to be 

 saved. 



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