The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-10-05
MUST MAINTAIN YhE CON-
sERvATIoN or WILD LIFE
To Abandon This Work curing War
Would Entail Untold Crop Damage.

To Abandon This work 0urtna War
Would Entail uatoIe Crop Damage.
(By r, a, QuArles. Second Vice Pres
dent, American Game Protective
and Propagation AssociAtion.l
There are doubtless many patriot
ie Americans Interested ia the con
Isertatian vi wild life who have pom
dered deeply during the past few
months their duty toward the organ.
i9ed movement for such conservation
IA view Of the situation the country
faces. Admittedly. acre are many
actiyities. worthy OF all praise which
must be abandoned during the course
| of the war.
| Il conservation one of these
That question must be answered
by the American people, but We be
lievs their Judgment will be- that all
forms ot conservation of natural re
sources are more necessary IN times
af war than when the country Is at
peace,
Money Expended.
Hundreds of thousands Of dollars
have been apent In the last decade Ia
this country in initiating eonserVa
ion measures having Ia do with the
nations resources and the activities
thus initiated have been In MOST In
itancea bul fairly brought under
way To abandon these means almost
a total loss Of the large sums that
have been expended; IL means thar
nearly all the work OF preparation
must be done over. once peace comes
lgain We think that n single Illus
traIion will make clear the fact that
there must be 50 let up IN the work
Conservation comes as epeeihc
TO country depleted through waste
af It's natural resources No physician
would counsel m any circumstance
he abrupt breaking of of a course Of
r.aimant laalgned 10 make normal
human body depleted By years at
unnatural drain. Does the case of
country alex from depletion dtner
me whit from that of an lndtViduai
uffering from the same cAuseG
Every stroke in the canse OF con
teyyation makes the nation more ~
o wage winning nght
We have had IN mind al forms 81
| conservation uf natural resources ~
what has been said above, but We
think wild life has a special claim
for continued support at this time,
insect Ravaaes.
Conservation of wild life mannN
arSt and foremost protection and In
erpAaa Of supply ~ inMecbdeAtfuylnH
, md wild-aeed eating birde tadmitlad'
! AZ wholly deficient through anrr-
! trained alaughter in the paAtl with
,ut which the raising Of food crops
, md the continuance Of our forests
gould ba inpoasible
The annual crap loaA IFssln ~lnasai
rayaRem alone exceeds $1,000 ,0OV.u0ot
rhnse are the fKnreR Of the United
2 80 .aes4 saF
Conservation 81 food IL the worlds
. Greatest problem today,
without crops we cannot have
food
!. | crops
These facts cannot succnHsfnlly be
. | tented They impul the Inclusion
that for every dollar spent IN the pro
!. lection ~ bird life before the war,
: a least donhie che amount should DC
4 appended now.
~ the aoher. minded Americans
y nonaar thnse statements " they wili
we believe that they will give NOR"
= g.n.,rnnsly than they have IN tbs
d nasi Of time. energy aud money ~
o sueh organizations As N" Am"Firah
~ lame association. which " MoFhhk
d increasingly. lnt"iiigebuy ana hn'
y / eNHfuitB To iNNfHA4sR hfA ~" -
- iur country
y Five million sportsmsn.
% There may BE- some WILING ~ ah
n fnii the sound foundation of our reas
n onlnr who VIII argue that The eass oi
- same il different and that protective
= efforts should cease In so far as Il
70 il concerned while che war ia oti
u such NJ these are lAboTins undei
Q the impression. fairly widespread -
70 his country. that the major par
= plsyed by game birds and animals 10
u hls country 10 a. sport To oompar
"a atiYely small number of men %
~ SealIh That IL not true. Approx
ir mAtaly 5000. 200 men 10 into th'
?" gane covers OF this country ever
10 year for sport In Pennsytvania alon'
800 900 hunting licenses are ISSUES
ID every year. and in New York th'
number is not greatly less In th'
onparatiyely auaall state Of Connse
tleui more than g. 200 licenses Ner'
ssaed last year, These hKnres ahop
-, hat the man 81 moderate mea n
y largely predominatss IN that s"eu0l
n our population devoted 10 shoot