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FORESTRY AND GAME 
CONSERVATION 
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stances, however, the State has acted 
independently, and unfortunately has 
not always acted wisely, i 
Any system of game administration re- 
quires a method of utilizing the surplus. 
There are certain game enthusiasts, who 
are not deep students of game problems, 
who, without proper consideration and 
understanding advocate indiscriminate 
and indefinite multiplication of game re- 
fuges. The only thought in the minds of 
such men is multiplication of game with- 
out regard to whether there can be pro- 
vided proper conditions for maintaining 
the game in good condition. As I stated 
in my address before the National Parks 
force in January, 1917, speaking of game 
preserves : 
“In several instances, State game 
preserves have been superimposed 
upon the National Forests, or blank- 
et laws passed restricting hunting, 
without reference to the possible in- 
crease of the protected animals be-* 
yond the available food, and without 
reference to the various problems of 
forest administration. All goes well 
until the numbers increase beyond 
the capacity of the land to support 
them, and then the animals suffer or 
actually die of starvation. It is just 
as unintelligent and just as cruel to 
overstock a range with wild stock as 
with cattle.” 
T HE Forest Service has joined the Bio- 
logical Survey in recommending a 
different principle of control in the 
use of game increase than is now in ef- 
fect. The system today is to try to con- 
trol hunting through the naming of sea- 
sons in a statute. If a mistake is made, 
an Act of legislature, which may not meet 
for two years, or in some cases, four 
years, is required. This plan may he ap- 
propriate for certain classes of game 
but in other cases it is too inelastic. We 
have therefore been advocating State 
legislation which would authorize the 
State game agencies to limit the number 
of hunting licenses which would be is- 
sued in a given year for the State, or for 
portions of the State, leaving with the 
executive branch of the State the author- 
ity to make changes in the limits to the 
seasons from year to year, in accordance 
with the special needs of the game. Al- 
ready this principle is finding favor in 
some quarters and will undoubtedly be 
adopted in the near future by a number 
of western States. 
The Enabling Act of the Forest Serv- 
ice does not mention game. In the law 
of Mdy 23, 1908, authority is granted for 
officials of the Forest Service in all ways 
practical to aid in the enforcement of the 
laws of the States and Territories in vari- 
ous matters, including the protection of 
fish and game. Under this authority the 
Forest Service has from the beginning co- 
operated with the States in game pro- 
tection on the National Forests, and has 
consistently recommended to the States 
the appointment of the forest officers as 
