Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-05-31
SAVING THE WILD ANIMALS.

and persistent destruction of tho native
birds boy boys and youths with guns
and nippefa should SCI people to think
inc and officials 90 acting
WHY should not the game laVs boz.
in the FIRST place. amended and Doc the
second place enforced. so ass Co cover
every Wild bird and practically every
wild animal that is left Co us7
The wild creatures are rapidly dis
appearing. but the foN. weasel. mink.
and skunk. AND 400 the hawks and owls.
ought bon our Judgment. 10 bc Included
in the lIst of the protected species.
since none of these does more harm
than good 10 will be- FAR better for the
state Co pay the damage. upon proof Of
actual loss 90 anyone. by reason Of the
occasional deprc dations OF any OF these
Wild creatures rather than that the
whole country shall be- deprived Of their
useful services and interesting pres
ence.
How irreparable the loss 20 our land
scape Is the practical extinction of the
great golden eagle, How much less of
spirit daring. courage. and lIfs come
10 MS since we no longer mark the ma
iestic creature soaring among the
clouds. the monarch Of the skies, A
draory world It viii be out Of doors
when We can no more hear tho scream
NJ hawks. can no longer End the tracks
Of the coon. nor follow a fox % It's den
We can well afford to part with a tur-
nip. chicken, and even with "a suit Of
clothes now and then. for the sake of
this wild flower of our fenced pas
lures and close cut meadows
So runs the argument Of Dallas Lore
sharp. who adds that he ought 10 have
named the crow IN the list deserving
protection He admits that the crow
steals. but so did Falstaft and we
should miss FalstaT had Shakespeare
left him out still more should W. miss
the crow we're he driven from the pines.
They are both very human.
"Jlm Crow" he says. IFS the humans
est bird in feathers. The skunk I.4d
include IN the Hist 10 was not by mis-
take The skunk has a good and safe
side 10 him, when we know how IN ap-
proach him. Some one ought 20 spend
an entire October moon with him and
give us the better side OF his charac-
ter"
The same writer believes (and this Is
comfortlnF) that there is promise OF a
future for birds In their friendship for
us and IN our interest and sentiment
for them. Everybody Is interested I'm
birds. almost everybody admires them,
and many people know the songs and
nests % the more common species. The
birds may possibly be- saved. Il should
not be difhcult TO put an effective check
upon their reckless and appalling de-
structlon which is now going on.
with the four footed animals, how
ever. the problem Of conservation Is
harder. They are fewer, shyer, more
difficult Of study or course we have no
English Gilbert White a. yet In Ameri-
ca. We have not yet had time 20 pro-
duce one. The union of man with ma
tura which yields the naturalist Of Sell
borne is "a process Of time, and our SOIL
and our sympathy may be, as some
aver centuries more savage than Eng
apHs with us the question as TO
o.h.thsr OF not 10 may be worth while
Z, protect robin, chipping spar
r,v. orlolc. tauager. or owl depends
.oIaly upon what tho collectors
"a washington nnd lu the birds stom-
arbs We look upon our forests with
the spirit Of the AK. and for even those
,.b, consider the birds at all, the ques-
t.1n Is largely az 90 their gizzards ana
fusf how much or how little Of this or
tbgt kind % food they take. And VIC
fancy that one 90 the best things the
state Board o. Education could DO
and the city Boards emulate, would
Doc 20 require the reading OF whites
Natural History OF selbome. OF olive
'rborue MIuers First Book OF Birds OF
,rbompson-soton's Animal Stories, OF
sbarp's Burroughs and Songs books
and of such beautiful novels as IN,
"GiH of the Lmberlost'
10 BE- the creation OF good sentiment
and right feeling toward our 'l'il'
brothers OF the air that needs me
most of our attention II is the over
coming of the savage aud insatiate de
sire t5 kIu these entertaining friends
Ina feathers and FUR that We shoulC
work flr Enforcing the law can id
much towards calling attention 10 th'
/ evils of killing our animal friends au,
helpers. but little knowledge OF ther
,,sy. Be- .,uI mor, effective. The songs
[ tbe ways. thc ald-u short the spirit
| sf the birds ought 90 exercise the saw
age spirit ont ~ us. and 1t does-hu
I slowly
Though we nre trying, for Instance
90 COW the savage ga us by law, through
! attempting to restrain IL while the bird
| are breeding. yet We hardly succeed
For mo- sooner is the mating seaso'
over than the professional guuners an
/ rr the acIds with their dogs, locatin.
| every corey of quail. every mountain
that has wild chickens with the dawi
OF tho first day OF the open season the'
| are out, going from flock 20 flock KIN
/ ing. tm the last possible bird is In the.
bloody bags"
Have these hunters never heard tina
most pathetic OF an the wordless cre
of Ola, o4t-us-d0ofs- ,og5y-ca0 -"
the female quail or wild chicken a
night. when she is trying 20 gather he