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ADVERSE TO PARK SEGREGATION. 
We spuke last month of the adverse report prepared by 
the Public Lands Committee of the House of Representa- 
tives on House Bill No. 7, which is commonly known as 
the Segregation bill. This measure, while ostensibly one 
to fix the boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park, 
was really intended to cut off from that reservation con- 
siderable areas on the northeast, west and south, and if 
passed would have reduced the Yellowstone Park by 400,- 
000 acres, or 622 square miles, which would have been re- 
stored to the public domain. This report, though made 
Feb. 5, has only just been printed, owing to the delay in- 
volved in preparing a map to accompany it. It will, how- 
ever, serve as a valuable reference document for legis- 
lators in future sessions of Congress, and is of permanent 
value. 
The committee refute by unquestioned facts the argu- 
ments of those who desire to move further south the 
northern boundary line of the Park. They show that to 
'jut off the Montana strip and to make the northern 
boundary coincide with the northern boundary of the 
State of Wyoming, wonld only have the effect of establish- 
ing a little town closer to the Mammoth Hot Springs, 
thereby greatly increasing the difficulties in the adminis- 
tration and policing of the Park, while to make the 
northern line coincide with the Yellowstone, Lamar and 
Soda Butte Rivers would throw out of protection a large 
tract, heavily timbered, which forms the water shed of 
some of the main branches of the Yellowstone River. It 
would make the protection of the Yellowstone River very 
difficult, would abandon the main part of the only good 
winter grazing land in the Park, and would entail the de- 
struction of a large proportion of the deer, elk, antelope 
and mountain sheep now found in the. Park. The report 
calls special attention to the natural boundaries now ex- 
isting on the northeast corner of the Park and contrasts 
their effectiveness with that of a river easily fordable like 
the Yellowstone, in the following language: 
"The northeast corner of the Park is walled in on the 
north by a range of impassable mountains. No settlers 
can inhabit there, and law-breakers cannot pass over this 
barrier to destroy the game in winter. If the Segregation 
bill should be passed, there will be substituted for this 
natural barrier — now a silent, effective and inexpensive 
protection on the northeast — only a narrow river which 
can be easily crossed. To prevent incursions from the 
north bank of the Yellowstone River, large bodies of 
troops would be required to constantly patrol the south 
bank. The difficulties of administration would thus be 
vastly increased. The danger to all that renders the 
Park' desirable would be made more imminent. W aether 
it was mere chance or the wisdom of those who framed 
the original bill setting aside the National Park, the fact 
certainly is that this most important corner of the park 
is protected by nature far better than it could have been 
protected by the efforts of man, if vast sums had been ex- 
pended for the purpose of keeping out the law-breakers." 
If the committee are adverse to cutting off considerable 
area on the northeast corner of the Park, not less firmly 
are they opposed to the attempt to segregate the large 
area on the southwest corner. The only reasons advanced 
for this action is that some day some railroad may need 
the tract here proposed to be taken from the Park, but 
as has often been shown, if we are to cut off a corner, or 
a slice of the Park at the demand of every corporation 
that asks it, there will soon be no park left for us to cut 
from. Public interests and the public sentiment call 
upon Congress not to recede from the wise policy by 
which this Park was dedicated for the benefit andjihe en- 
joyment of the people of the entire country. 
The advocates of the Segregation bill with a great show 
of fairness say that this bill proposes to add to the Yellow- 
stone Park the adjacent forest reserve. They do not say, 
however, that as a matter of fact this reserve is already a 
portion of the park, although not formally added to it, and 
they do not say either that this bill proposes to reduce the 
area of this forest reserve by 1,239 square miles. The 
fact is, however, that the passage of this bill would have 
reduced the area of these two adjacent reservations, 1861 
square miles or 1,181,040 acres, and in making this reduc- 
tion would have ruined a vast tract of mountain forest, 
exterminated a great quantity of game, and most seri- 
ously have threatened the flow of the Yellowstone River. 
The report, with its accompanying map, ought to be in 
the hands of every individual who takes an interest in 
the Yellowstone Park.- No more concise and convincing 
document has ever been published in support of the in- 
tegrity of the reservation. 
In the face of this report we cannot help wondering 
whether at the "next session of Congress the familiar 
Segregation bill will dare to show its head again. 
FIELD TRIAL PROGRESS, 
It would be impossible to estimate, with any precision, 
the value of field-trial competitions in America in respect 
to their beneficial influence ofi sports afield with dog and 
gun. To them may be attributed the improved methods 
and products of breeders, trainers and manufacturers, all 
still more important in their collateral relations and in- 
fluences. To them may be attributed the efforts of 
breeders to produce dogs of high capabilities and pure 
blood. They have been important factors in teaching 
methods of training and handling, in promoting good- 
fellowship among sportsmen, and in enlisting a univer- 
sal interest in the charms and healthfulness of sport with 
dog and gun. 
Comparing the methods of the past with those of the 
present , great changes have taken place in the theory 
and practice of conducting field trials. In respect to the 
methods of determining the competition, the evolution 
from the old five-point system, and the heat system, to the 
spotting system now adopted by^all clubs, was slow and 
laborious. 
In respect to ideas of club membership and manage- 
ment, the evolution from the crude beginnings has been 
slow but sure. In the tentative beginnings everyone took 
a general interest in the club and the competition. But 
as in all pursuits which are earnestly followed, whether 
for gain or pleasure, the different branches of field-trial, 
management and competition become specialized. 
Greater knowledge produced greater refinement in 
all the theory and practice of the competition. As 
dogs and handlers improved, a higher standard was cor- 
respondingly evolved. 
At the present day a field trial is so specialized in its 
management, judging and handling, that in theory there 
is little room for improvement The old assumption that a 
gentleman who was a good shot afield was therefore a 
good field-trial-judge has been abandoned. To have the 
confidence of the competitors, the judge must have had 
practical experience at the field-trial, and must further- 
more be intelligent and of a judicial turn of mintl. The 
managers of all clubs are showing a decided tendency to 
make the interests and duties of the management sharply 
distinct from the interests of the competitors. 
There is no doubt that field-trials are a permanent 
institution in the realm of sport in this country. They 
all bear testimony to the passionate fondness for sport 
afield with dog and gun of the American people — a pas- 
sion so common that it is universal, and so natural that it 
is constant. And the mission of field-trials is for good, 
for they foster a sport which brings health and manhood 
to its followers, which induces relaxation from the wear 
and worry of business cares, and which brings men into 
touch with the beauty and sublimity of Nature. The 
prospect of the success and permanency of field-trials was 
never better than it is at present. 
ANTLERED GAME. 
The objection is sometimes urged against a law forbid- 
ding the killing of female deer and moose, that one can- 
not always certainly distinguish whether the game is 
buck or bull, or doe or cow. Two instances illustrating 
the fallibility of the most experienced hunters are 
afforded in the moose stories of a Nova Scotia guide told 
in our columns last week, and in the experience of Jack 
Darling as related to-day. The Nova .Scotia man urged 
his man to shoot at a moose, and the man not making out 
the game, he himself shot, only to perceive that the sup- 
posed moose was a tree-stump. In the Maine incident, 
Mr. Cushing, who is one of the most experienced and 
skilled hunters of this country, tells us that having dis- 
covered a moose which was partially concealed by the 
brush, he believed that he very distinctly saw its antlers, 
but after the shot had brought the game into view, it 
proved to be a cow. Now, if old and experienced moose 
hunters, who may be presumed to be comparatively cool 
and collected in the presence of game, make such stupid 
blunders, what are we to expect from the amateur, 
unused to the sight of game, flustered and possibly quak- 
ing with buck fever? Even with the best intentions in 
the world, sucb an one might kill a cow for a bull or a doe 
for a buck, or delaying to determine beyond peradventure 
the horned masculinity of the game, might behold many 
a "rocking-chair" make off through the woods, which 
with quicker work, would have been his own. 
Nevertheless, the rule that only males should be killed 
is a most excellent and highly desirable restriction in all 
regions where the game supply is already scant or may 
be made so by unrestrained killing. It is a rule which, 
quite irrespective of what the statute may be, should be 
accepted and observed by all who hunt game for other 
purposes, besides or in addition to a mere food supply. In 
the mountains or the remote wilderness where one kills 
for subsistence, chewing on tough bull elk is not to be 
thought of when the cow is to be had, nor the venison of 
a buck when that of a barren doe may fill its place. But 
in the Adirondacks, in Pennsylvania, as is Maine, Michi- 
gan, Minnesota, and wherever the horns for a trophy are 
not less sought than the meat for food, and where the 
man who hunts to-day must have heed for him who will 
hunt to-morrow, the rule that males only should be 
taken is reasonable and sportsmanlike, and he is the bet- 
ter sportsman who regards it. 
THAT PLATFORM PLANK. 
Sentiment is steadily growing in support of the' Forest 
aud Stream's Platform Plank — the sale of game should be 
forbidden at all seasons. The consuming traffic in game 
js recognized as the agency that is doing more than all 
others combined to make the earth barren of birds and 
the larger game. Not a week goes by that fresh evidence 
is not brought to public attention to illustrate anew the 
relation of market hunting to the game supply, and in 
one legislature after another measures are introduced for 
the purpose of providing the remedy. 
Wilkesbarre, Pa., sportsmen have been investigating 
the game traffic and its effect upon the ruffed grouse 
supply. They have found that there are in the vicinity 
of that city fifteen^professional hunters, who hunt game 
all through the season, and send the birds to the local 
market and to New York and Philadelphia. Five com- 
mission firms handled last season 3,100 ruffed grouse. 
The only remedy considered effective is the operation of 
a law to forbid traffic in birds, and an effort is now mak- 
ing to secure legislation to that end. 
A bill in the Minnesota Legislature, which a St. Paul 
correspondent tells us is on the road to passage, makes it 
"unlawful for any person to consign by common carrier 
to any commission merchant, or sale market, at any time, 
any elk, moose, caribou or deer, or any part thereof, ex- 
cept the skin or head. This provision shall also apply to 
any agent of any common carrier in carrying or handling 
such game." It is further required' that when fish or 
game shall be shipped enclosed in any covering, it must 
be marked in plain letters, setting forth the kind of game, 
the owner, the consignee and the destination. With such 
a law, fearlessly enforced by an honest and capable execu 
tive agent, the marketing of Minnesota game will be 
effectually controlled. A comprehension of the import- 
ance of honest game protection is becoming more gen- 
eral every day.j _ ■_ 
