BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 
199 
“Mr. Hornaday, couldn’t I have my land, and my brother’s 
also, made a game reserve, by the government? We have 
640 acres, and if it were made a reserve, the birds would 
increase. 
“The time will soon be here when the sage hens are gone! 
They do not migrate, and so are not protected under the 
migratory bird law. Some of the people in this state are 
lawless! Some of them defy every game law. They hunt 
ducks all winter, fish through the ice, catch trout by the oat- 
sack full, and shoot deer any time of the year they want to. 
The hunters come in here literally by the train-load to shoot, 
and they don’t stop shooting until every flying creature lies 
at their feet. 
“It is not for our own use that we want to preserve the 
birds. We do not eat them. We prefer to see them alive. 
It is for the country that we wish to save them. We are 
Americans, and it is a disgrace to see the wild life destroyed 
by men whose one thought is a big bag. 
“If you can do anything in this matter, or suggest what 
we could do, I trust you will let me know.” 
Leroy C. Jones, State Game Warden, Boise. 
“Our people would not be in sympathy with an entire 
closed season on sage hen, but I believe we can bring about 
a move in the next Legislature that will give our birds better 
protection. We are going to insist on cutting down the 
limit to less than half, and make the open season a little 
later, giving the bird a better chance to protect himself. 
Under the present system of operating the Game Depart¬ 
ment, if we close the season on the game birds or animals 
indefinitely we would have no fund with which to operate 
the Department. We fully realize the need of protection, 
and believe it can be done by reducing the limit and making 
the open season a little later.” 
D. W. Stanrod, Jr., Laivyer, Pocatello. 
“There has been very little hunting in the southern coun¬ 
ties this year, and I find that through the efforts of our local 
game warden, and the sportsmen in this county and several 
of the northern counties, (that is, north of here), that the 
hunting has been reduced to a minimum. A resolution was 
passed through our appeals to the effect that the automobile 
and pump guns would be taboo, and this has had its effect 
