BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 
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remnants are so small, so scattered, so weak and so beset 
by coyotes, wolves, hawks, sheep, cattle and sheep-herders 
that even long close seasons can not save them! It was be¬ 
cause of just such adverse conditions that the too-late close 
seasons, of five years and even ten years, could not bring 
back the heath hen to New Jersey, New York and Massa¬ 
chusetts. 
If you are going to save your sage grouse, your sharp- 
tailed grouse, pinnated grouse, quail, band-tailed pigeons, 
aeer and tree squirrels, you have got to act NOW! Even 
two years from noiv may prove to be entirely too late! 
THE PRESENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS 
OF THE SAGE GROUSE. 
Let us put on the stand, very briefly, a few witnesses 
who are competent to testify in this case—the case of The 
Sage Grouse vs. The People of the West. 
Colorado: 
William C. Bradbury, Railway Contractor, Railway Build¬ 
ing, Denver. 
“Regarding Sage Hen, I have emphatically stated my 
views on every provocation, and at every opportunity to 
wedge them in from the sportsman's standpoint. I have 
shot them in Wyoming, in Utah, in Idaho and almost every 
other western state, at times when it took long special trips 
to reach their habitat, and the fact is beyond controversy 
that unless something on a very broad scale is immediately 
done, they are doomed to early extinction, for the following 
reasons: 
First:—The settlement of the West, and the construction 
of thousands of miles of new roads through the mountains 
and foothills where they live, and the advent of the auto¬ 
mobile, makes them accessible for a couple of days' outing, 
whereas, formerly, it took as many weeks; and consequent¬ 
ly there are now twenty gunners for them where formerly 
there was only one. 
Second:—They are large, clumsy birds, and an easy mark 
in the open, where the remainder of a flock is readily 
marked down and again flushed by the gunner. 
