The Alaska daily empire., 1920-12-28
Big 'iig Game n Hunter l1l Defends Griin1n,el, in
 Scores HOrnaday

Crockett Club along with Col. Roose- welt who always held him as a trust ed advisor on all matters of game protection. In the Boone and Crock ett Club MT. .Grinnell has always had the leading influence in game protec- tive measures and in conservative policies. He is now president of the club.
 MT. Grinnell preserved the forma- ton of the Audubon Society until it developed into an effective force in the country, and today it com, mands the active influence of over three million citizens. His leader ship resulted in protecting the game of the Yellowstone National Park and also prevented the exploitation o. the Park for commercial purposes. He first suggested the plan of the Glacier National Park and pressed | it for twenty five years until Con- gress finally created it. His activi- ties were forceful and effective in es- tablishjng National Forestry. Ill every large measure in game protec- ton in this country Mr. Grinnell has either led it or had an active influ- ence in promoting it. No man in the country today is so familiar pract.- cally with wild life conservation from it's beginning to the present, or with Western frontier history and devel- | opment as they have affected wild life and he has always been filled with intelligent sympathy for the pioneers who were part of it. His practical experience with game and with hunters of game is as wide, in innate, and as long, as that of any man in this country. His unceasing activity in behalf of game conserva
 ton is to this very day as virile, influential and as effective as ever. But it has not in the least taken on the method of self-advertising.
 He has been too passionately in earnest, he has cared only for the
 results of his work rather than for the notoriety he might have gained, in the manner of some others, by ad-
 vertising his relation to them.
 He has always in general been sound rather than sentimental, in
 the subject, he is consulted on all important matters of game protection by all interested, except one individ-
 ual. His advice is profoundly re- spected He is very active presi-
 dent of the Boone and Crockett club,
 an active director of the American
 Game and Propagation Association, and of the National Parks Associa
 ton. Only last winter he personally came to Washington and pleaded be
 fore the House Committee of Appro
 priations in behalf of increased ap
 propriations for enforcing the Alaska
 game law He was influential in
 securing it. This kind of activity
 Dr. Hornaday considers retired" evi. dently considering as ''active" his
 own method of writing general rec
 concentrations in general pamphlet while sitting at his desk. All Al askans will agree that the greatest | constructive step that has been ac-
 eomplished for permanently protect | ing Alaska game in large region now teeming with it was the estab- l:shment of the Mckinley National
 Park. Retired" MT. Grinnell took
 , most active interest in it, doing a
 vast amount of work in its behalf,
 besides making two trips to Wash
 ington, one of which was for the
 purpose of favoring it before the
 House Committee. Active Dr. Horna 1nxr hx,r Ard
 directed a single activity toward as sistng it.
 Mir. Grinne:, IS ripe, profound scholar, he always has been and
 still is an out door man of the best sourdough type, he is greatly be-
 loved and respected by all who know
 him and throughout the country
 among all classes of the American people the number is legion; he has
 always particularly endeared himself to men of the frontier type, the very kind that have been and still are de veloping Alaska. Possessing com plete honor and integrity. he has de- voted most of his life to serve the interests l have mentioned He is the highest type of an American gentleman. As to these qualities. the esteem in which he is held. his Influence, activity, his career there is no divided opinion except that of Dr. Hornaday who I believe would hesitate to publish such remarks about him as appeared in his com - - - -