Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-12-31
batter Quantity Than the Whole
West. Says a Well Known
Sportsman.
|id Increase i'm Recent Years shown
james H. Rccd-tnlargcd Shell
ANOTHER Factor the Modern
system of Game Laws.

here is more game in New Eng
to-day than even in the whole
st. says James Russell Reed the
'tsman who is a foremost figure Of
Massachusetts Fish and Game Pro-
i've association, and for several years
PRESIDENT, and there is more big game
Neon the Hudson river and the Gulf
ft. Lawrence than there Is west of the
lsOn river
zen, not to be possibly tripped up on
statement. he qualified it by saying
he would include the A1irondacks
the territory named and put the as
ION beyond possible question. This
III make this great game preserve OF
lfc include the Adirondack region,
England. New Brunswick and Nova
TIA. lie also excludes Alaska. that
being continuous territory with the
rs Hudson section.
course, this condition is new. But it
iue to several causes which are also
selN new. One is the change in the
rdcter of human interference with
wild ANIMALS. Deserted farms on the
towns imply reforesting of consider
areas which were formerly under
walton or in paStmage. This means
irged shelter for the deni2ens of the
better cover under which they can
ance across the country and more eN-
'lN' leculnS GROUNDS. Another ma
al factor is the modern system of
Nc laws, whereby the increase of many
DIS of game is promoted. The alb
&c of protection for the destructive
niVores permits them to be killed at
isure by men, and their death means
for hundreds of vegetable-eating
ltures in place of one fesh-eater
ed.
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shnr, hoofs of tho deer cutting down
that lights was fatally impeded while
.suo with small loss of strenpth ny
king i'm. With the extermination of the
Ives has come the expansion of the deer
the former wolf territory.
BEARS MULTIPLYING.
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