, 1925-09-30
TELLS WHY He
FAv0RS EXTENSION

II we are to preserve our big game
animals, game birds and game fish
from determination we must have a
reservation large enough and so fitted
by Nature as to afford them a natural
refuge and asylum where they can live
and multiply under ample protection
removed from local influences.
Next to the rugged scenery of Wyo-
ming, the wild animal life of the state
attracts more hunters and tourists
than any other single item. No sight
seer m to Wyoming to see a min
lister or d~ry-farmer, but they do come
to see wild animals, hunt game birds
and catch game fish and have even
been known to visit the state to see
wild cowboys and wild Indians.
The territory which it is proposed
to add to the park is admirably fitted
for a refuge for the wild life of the
country. 1t is well watered, partly
covered with forests and its rugged
mountains makes it inaccessible for
automobile or wagon transportation.
By placing it under federal control,
all police and law enforcement Off
cials would be removed from local in
fluences or political pull which would
insure the enforcement of game laws
and fire protection rules.
Nearly all of the proposed extern
sion is worthless for anything except
growing of timber as j. contains no
known minerals of value. The few
dude ranches and cultivated spots
would be taken over by the govern
ment at a fair price so that the own
ers would lose nothing financially.
This territory can never be taken over
so cheaply in the future. The longer
it is postponed the more costly it will
be.
Segregation of the proposed terri
tory and administering it as a separ-
ate unit in connection with the park
would insure forever the preservation
of this vast region as a virgin wilder
ness of unsurpassed beauty and gran
deur of scenery.
1t would relieve the state of the
expense of feeding the elk in the win
ter, of paying damages to ranchmen
because of the forays of the wild ami
mails on their crops and shift the bur-
den of policing the territory at all
times from the state to the federal
government.
There can be no monopoly of trans
portation because the bill providing
for the extension specifically states
there will be no new highway con-
struction and that the territory shall
be left in its present state of wildness
with only horseback and foot trails
leading to the most inaccessible
places.
Admission to the proposed extern
sion will remain free at present.
While the game, fish and fowl will
be better protected there will be no
curtailment of hunting and fishing
lawfully but there will be an end to
the poachers who live on the border
land of the park and make a living by
killing bear, moose and elk when they
overflow from the protection of the
park into adjacent territory.
If the proposed territory is not add
ed to the park, it may be the last op-
p~ortunity for the creating of such a
vast region so admirably adapted for
the purpose intended and, as we see
it, it is a duty we owe to ~posterity and
the world to preserve for all time to
come as many of the species of our
wild animal life of to-day as it is
humanity possible for US to do.
God gave us these beautiful, shy,
timid creatures of the earth, air and
Why should we exterminate
them?