PERMANENT WILD LIFE PROTECTION 
FUND 
BULLETIN No. 5 DECEMBER 1, 1916 
ADDRESSED TO THE STATES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER 
SAVE THE SAGE GROUSE FROM EXTINCTION 
A DEMAND FROM CIVILIZATION TO THE 
WESTERN STATES 
T HIS is a call to the people of the Far West, to save 
the sage grouse and other grouse, and quail, from 
complete annihilation. The fate of these species is in the 
hands of the men who will shape the legislation of the 
western states during January and February, 1917. The 
case of the sage grouse is brought forward most prominent¬ 
ly, because it is the most conspicuous of the candidates for 
Oblivion. 
Do the people of the Rocky Mountain and Pacific States 
wish to see their largest and finest upland game birds fol¬ 
low the bison, the passenger pigeon, and the heath hen into 
oblivion? If they do not, they must act quickly and reso¬ 
lutely; for the hour of disappearance now is mighty close 
at hand. 
We have no doubt that in each one of the eleven sage- 
grouse states there are men who will say: “There are plenty 
of sage grouse yet. There is no need for long close seasons. 
The idea is nonsensical; and the man who advocates it is 
a crank!” 
To that we answer: Beware! Do not be fatally deceived, 
as so many other Americans have been in the past. 
