The Cordova daily times., 1921-05-13
WRITES ABOUT GAME ANIMALS
 IN TERRITORY

The April Bulletin of the Amcri can Protective Association" published in New York, contains an illustrated article on "The Big Game of Alaska" by Dr. F. w. Nelson, chief of the bureau of biological survey, depart ment of agriculture. Dr. Nelson bases his article largely on observa- tions of his trip through the terri tory in 1920, and previous study, at first hand and otherwise, of condi- tions in the north. He strongly ad- should be given to the utilitarian use of game in Alaskan development and while he thinks the danger to human life and to stock and game from the brown and grizzly bears has been greatly exaggerated he thinks there is no need for their protection against extermination. He says they will con tinue to inhabit Alaska for many years to come in scarcely diminishing numbers.
 Laying foundation for his article, Dr. Nelson says:
 Among sportsmen the big game of Alaska is of worldwide fame, but it's abundance is of even greater interest to the hardly pioneers who for years have lived in the remoter districts of that great territory During my visit to Alaska in the summer of 1920, miners and others repeatedly expressed their opinion that without the reliable meat supply from cari- bou, moose and mountain sheep it would have been almost an impossi- bility to prospect in many districts. sections, notably on the Panama river and it's tributaries. To explor- CTS, trappers and Indians, game is equally necessary"
 That the people of Alaska look with favor upon the conservation of game animals, and are strongly op- posed to wanton waste, he says, add ing that "Alaskans favor reasonable restrictions" he accounts for the feeling of personal proprietorship in the game of Alaska as being sen timent common to all pioneers who rely so much upon game for their instinct that causes Indians and food supply. It is, he says, "the same other primitive men to resent in- trusion into their hunting grounds"
 ALASKA LAST FRONTIER
 Alaska is the last area belonging to the United States containing primitive wilderness of a great scale," says Dr. Nelson, with large game animals still abounding in many parts of it." He adds:
 These animals are of such noble character that they deeply interest all sportsmen and other lovers of wild life. The vast wilderness they AudDlI CouCdILo 6lcdl opdCe5 OLuel- wise uninhabited and characterized by scenery so magnificent as to exercise an impelling appeal to all red-blooded men. There the sports man and lover of the outdoor may grip with hardships of an elementary nature, and there he will meet some of the finest and most notable of the wild animals on earth today.
 Tt would be deplorable loss to the world to have the wild life of this region destroyed. It Is evident however, that there, as in other re- gions, wild animals which occur within welloccupied areas and inter- fere with normal civilized existence are certain to be reduced to a limited number or to be entirely destroyed. long remain wilderness and where, trust, for centuries to come may continue great herds of caribou, the lordly moose, the mountain sheep and the huge bears which now character ize them"
 HELPS CONSERVATION
 Dr. Nelson sees relief of the ten sion of conservation of game in Alaska by the abandonment of large areas of Alaska by white people, by the inroads of death due to epidemics of influenza among the Indians and Eskimos and through the introduction of reiadeer raising as commercial industry. All these elements have caused cessation of killing of wild animals for food, he says.
 Traffic in hides and heads of game animals should not be permitted, ac- cording to Dr. Nelson, for it would be extremely detrimental and possibly fatal to their conservation for any