THE: YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. 163 
tion, however comprehensive, will be comparatively futile, unless 
the work of all engaged shall be so connected as to prevent confu- 
sion and secure the strength of united effort. This proposition is 
obvious enough to need no demonstration. I will, therefore, pass 
directly to the subject next at hand. 
It will be seen, by reference to the bill previously quoted, that 
it is made the duty of the Secretary of the Interior to *‘ provide 
against the wanton destruction of the fish and game, etc.,” within 
the reservation. I have already given a list of the principal mam- 
mals and birds of this region,* from which those properly in- 
cluded under this head of gamewill readily be selected. Accept- 
ing this term in its widest sense, we may, perhaps, infer that this 
provision, if rigidly executed, will insure the protection of the 
greater number of the animals mentioned in this list. This, in a 
measure, secures the fulfilment of the scheme which I haye pro- 
posed for.the preservation of these animals. A moment’s thought, 
however, will show the inadequacy of such means, for, in the first 
place not all of the forms included in my list are representatives 
of the park fauna, nor is it certain that mere protection would, in 
all cases, be equivalent to preservation.t Besides as I have stated, 
not. a few of the species alluded to are well on the way to extine- 
tion, and great care might at times be required to prevent exter- 
mination. I have not space to consider these points as I could 
wish, but a few of the facts will not be out of place. 
Among the foreign animals which I have suggested for introduc- 
tion into the National “Zoological Gardens” is the bison, which, 
being. erratic in its habits, would need some attention until egress 
from the park should become disadvantageous to it by the settle- 
ment of the surrounding country.{ 
_ The American moose (Alce Americanus Jardine), the mule deer 
(Cervus macrotis Say), the big horn mountain sheep (Ovis mon- 
tana Cuvier), and the «fountain antelope (Aplocerus montanus), 
wrongly named the Rocky Mountain goat, are undoubtedly among 
sigs First Part of this article. 
ihh trib $ thie roe. 
: gion, a few at least of those species of other faunas which are in tanger 0 + am ex- 
termin riments might 
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