The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-25
ADIRONDACK DEER SCARCE.
Danger of determination Unless
Game Invvs Are Enforced.

Danger of determination Unless
Game Laws Are Enforced.
ALBANY. March 25-''Cnless the game
laws are so amended as TO prohibit the
killing of deer in November the nOblest
game of the Adirondacks is doomed.
Cornelius Carter, one of the Oldest and
best known guides of the North Woods
gives this opinion, based on fifty-five
years experience as a guice and sports
man. For eighteen years he has had 4
continuous residence of six months in
each year as caretaker Of the Council
Park, which comprises 6,266 acres situated
al the head waters Of the Oswegatchie
River, in the heart Of the Adirondack
wilderness
Carter has presented his views to the
Forest, Fish, and Game Committees of
the Senate and Assembly in the hope that
prohibitive laws may be enacted 10 save
the deer. which he says are constantly
decreasing in numbers. If there is a
doubter," says the old guiue. let him go
with me TO the base of the mountains,
where the deer are wont TO come down to
the Iowlands to feed or for drink There
you viii find trails once thoroughly beat
en-. now old and grass grown, many Of
them not having footprint TO show what
made them. If he still doubts I win go
with him to the mountain tops and eIe-
waited ranges. where bucks are accus-
toned 10 travel in rutting season during
November What do we find2 Very few
signs of deer. indeed, whereas but ten
years ago y0I wOulu have found the
ground cut TO pieces by footsteps in many
Places and The standing timber raked
5lazed. and souged by their antlers in
fighting These signs are fast passing
away by the growth of the timber and
the annual falling Of leaves and brush
wood The signs that remain are mere
souvenirs Of Il race u noble animals. the
most Of which have been killed hy The
severe winters or the rife
In 1882 WI n I first took possession Of
the Cornell lands, il was not uncommon
in the morning 10 see from camp from
one TO five deer feeding and travelling
about on the plains Nova lays If you
see one during q season you DO well. They
are not here They are dead. II is true
that there are some deer yet, but my
judgment is that there Is not more than
one deer now where there were It q jSSen-
Il am not in favor Of a law prohibiting
the killing Of does as Is proposed The
law now gives man the right TO kill TWO
deer lie mas not yaTued gnem WatTe ne
can take his rife and kill them any time
he plcaSeS. II may take him one day and
II may take him twenty before his chance
comes, and when IL does he IS going 70
shoot.
He is not going around to see If the
animals has horns. If he does the killing
Of deer for time for the does. it is Il
do. Do YOU think anyone will know
that2 If il is ever seen OF IS brought to
camp il viii come in such form that
TO one can tell its sex. Far better would
it be to enact q law prohibiting the kill
ing Of deer for a time, for the does would
then be protected and it would make HAIRS
fewer.
The appointment of game protectors
and fOreSJers through faVOTitiSm is a bad
practice grave error They should be
examined as TO their qualifications. They
should be- men Of honor and integrity,
who viii not spend half their time at the
inns. cafes. and sporting houses within
Their raEEe nlaNinEs SeEen-un-.'