BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 
219 
facts in the case. If it were possible to reach the masses 
of true sportsmen throughout the western states with the 
indisputable facts regarding the sage grouse situation, we 
have no doubt whatever that they would immediately move 
for adequate measures of protection. 
But who is going to put forth the effort that would be 
necessary to place this situation clearly and fully before all 
the members of the grand army of western sportsmen? 
Such an effort, to be successful, would require a years’ time 
and a very considerable expenditure of labor and of money. 
Is it necessary that it should be made at the expense of the 
fast vanishing grouse? We hold that it is not; and that each 
state legislature of the states west of the Mississippi will be 
amply justified in immediately enacting a six-year close sea¬ 
son law for its sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, pinnated 
grouse and all other species of upland game birds that now 
are in danger of extermination. 
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In behalf of the sage grouse, and all the other grouse, 
quail and ptarmigan of the West, we now demand that they 
be saved from extinction by legislative action in 1917, in the 
form of new laws providing close seasons of from 6 to 10 
years; and no half-way measures are requested or desired. 
