The Kusko times., 1922-10-28

30, ,000, nobody knows. The game war den who hazards the opinion that there are as many bears in the Territory as there are human beings may be right or may be wrong. An enumeration oi bears is beyond attainment. Likewise this. is true of the caribou and the moose.e Figures, presented as to animal life, cave reindeer, are guesswork nee essarilys
 Broadly speaking. it is, within reason to say that the bears, all varieties. the caribou, and the moose in, Alaska, whatever the number in the aggregate, although diminished in certain sec tions, have not as whole decreased largely in recent years. At auy rate, this is the consensus of opinion of game wardens, prospectOrs- and outdoor men generally.
 Mountain sheep, and mountain goats, equally impossible of enumeration, are apparently also holding their own in number Deer are less plentiful.
 Migratory eannery men are accused of slaughtering deer prodigally and carrying winter supplies of such meat to the Statee. Whether fact cp not, this charge ls- accepted. The lack of a patrol service lends plaasibiJity to it.. It is in keeping with the easy traffic in liquor through Alaskan and adjacent waters.
 Whether beavers and other fur-bear- ing animals are increasing or decreas- ing is moot question. A report that they are continually being trapped in many localities, and thus all but exter- minated,~is offset'by an equally cred ible report that in other sections they are multiplying in such mum bers as to dam up bne. streams and do vast dam age. Appraising. the conflicting testi mony. at it's probable worth, it may be safe to say that the beaver, like the larger animals, still abounds in num- berse
 With the wholly inadequate. not to say absurd, facilities provided for the enforcement ofsthe game law and. the preservation of wild life, it is a plea sure to bear testimony to the excellent work of the small score of game War dens and Biological Survey agents who. cooperating to the fullest extent possible in 8. country of such colossal size as to keep them widely separated. well. In the main, they take their "OI n SSi iSooIy aAo sL0ii oCifICc Ao valuable.
 Educationany, these men are, doing much in impressing upon people the necessity of conserving game for their own welfare. One of the wardens in the First division, a,lover of wild life and student of Alaskan conditions, has 8 set of ouestionnaires on an imals and birds, to be used in the schools. These have been. adopted and will come into general. use. In thus interest in and promoting of game on the part of teachers and4 pupils the. work of con- serving bird and, animal life will be aided.ai This same game warden has enlisted cooperation and aid of intelligent natives. in his jurisdiction, who win .also~ bes.a potent influence for good.
 If the present wholly inadeo uate sys- tenn Of supervision and enforcement is to continue, and under federal control, it seems advisable to create 8 chief game warden of the Biological Survey, whose duty 1t would be to serve in the field, visiting the various sections of the Territory, and directing and super vising the work of the small corps of game wardens.- Guidance is required and closer coordination The gov ernor, under the present system, can only exercise care in the selection Of game wardens and exact monthly re- ports and proper accounting.
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