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tion in fact. -Sphere n^rlmr* Leon such & thing 'before the discovery of Ainer- 
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ica, but if so, it has not been satisfactorily recorded, or described and it 
rapidly vanished before the advance of civilisation, 
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With a sparse and scattered human population there may be a somewhat 
stable adjustment of animal and plant life, but with ft dense human popula- 
tion such as we now have, or the far more dense population in European and 
Oriental countries, every form of wild life is dominated by the needs and 
. ..... activities of man. Many of ns within the past 50 years have seen the mid- 
dle west and -western, states change from abundance of wild gaae and other 
native ani-sl and plant life to pastures of domestic stock, fields of cul- 
tivated crops, and exotic weeds. She ©wee and fur animals went first, the 
carnivores had to be killed to protect the stock, and the rodents had to 
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killed to protect the crops* we who £r«w up amen© them know* 
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IP Some game and cau ivores were crowded into national Forest e and na- 
tional Parks and unoccupied lands, and if we let them alone, as some advo- 
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cate, to maintain ft ba lance o f n ature, there will be in a f css? years a large 
number of oarnivores’lmd a rapidly Smindshin© number of ©ftme and lives took 
until these are all or nearly all genftf then the carnivores will starve or 
scatter out and a few live on the small animal life* 
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he controls present conditions intelligently animal life and even man will 
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■■I foolish, but to moat people the real facts of relationships among animals 
disappear. 
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are so little known that any pretty theory is accepted as fact and the 
false claims that if all anitoals are let alone all will be happy and harm- 
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less appeals to them. 
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Tirades a^rainat the killing of carnivores have been widely circulat- 
ed within the past few years and most of these can be traded directly to 
8|Bpj| ; two sources. Dr. 0. G. Adams and Dr* Joseph Grinnell , both able naturalists 
but with very restricted vision* Articles by M« P. Skinner, -.jond Ho Her, 
'Sdmond J. Sawyer, and others, associated with or dominated by Adams are fl. 
along the smne line, attacking the policy of the Biological Survey, the Tor- 
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Service , and the Park Service* (see Adams, Relation of Wild Life to the 
Public, Roosevelt Wild Life Bull., Vol* 2, Ho*. 4, p. 371, feb* 1326 | Roller, 
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