, 1925-10-07
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from Big Herd
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h entire Jackson Hole country, at
which time / did not see one spe-
cimen of wild life. AS soon as you
attempt to domesticate your elk by
feeding them, there is no possible
chance of preserving them. The
Jackson Hole country should be
their natural winter home. The
president of the Philadelphia chap
ter of the Isaac Walton league is
working to purchase the entire
Jackson Hole country, to be handled
by the state of Wyoming, M not
by the federal government. They
feel it should be turned into a ma
tural game preserve and should not
be commercialized by the national
park. If you are going to build
hotels and highways through these
game reservations. you might as
well do away with your natural re-
sources for the conservation of wild
life, for game and human beings
won't live in the same section.
That is what has driven the wild
game out of the Jackson Hole coun-
try. 1 am certainly opposed to the
extension of the Yellowstone Ma
tional park, because they have all
they can take carr of. The aver
age tourist only sees one-third of
the National park now. 1 spent 16
days there on horseback several
years g and did not begin to see
it.
"The whole thing settles on this
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ment of u wild life, and that is
to do just what Pennsylvania has
done-devote all the license money
to the care and propagation of wild
life, and do not put it into the
general funds of the state.
Our receipts enable the commits
sion to employ men who are profit
cient to carry out the work. The
commission has full power to en-
ploy wardens and is able to pay
pay them a salary sufficient to
make them do the work as it
should be done. The Greybull is
the natural feeding ground for the
antelope. Wyoming has set aside
reservations for their game in the
mountain districts. That is their
summer home. but they have made
no reservation for winter. All ba-
sins that should be set aside are
taken up and pastured by cattle
men. horsemen and sheepmen, and
when this wild game come down in
winter time there is nothing for
them to eat"
Twenty years ago there was
very little game in Pennsylvania,
but today Pennsylvania is the lead
ing game state. We killed last year
over 1000 deer. over 5000 black
bear. and a few elk. The increase
which has made this possible is
due 10 the manner in which we
have taken car of the game. Deer,
elk and bear are the only game we
have.
Speaking of migratory birds. DR..
Moore emphasized the necessity that
the state and federal laws did not
conflict and that there should be
a commission in each state that is
thoroughly capable and qualified
to take care of its own affairs, but
that it must be non-political or
there is no use in having it."
'If it is possible to AXE the
game out of politics in the state of
Wyoming and substitute a commits
sion, with the natural of
the state there is no reason why
the United States should not have
all kinds of wild life for genera
tions to come. 1t appears to me
that the powers of the state of Wy
oming have commercialized through
the sheepmen tracts of land that
must be set aside for the winter
home of our wild life"
DR.. Moore is chairman of the
Forestry commission of Pennsyl-
vania, and president of the Phila-
delphia Camp and Trail club. with
a membership of 81 people, de-
voted to the conservation of wild
life. He has hunted in Alaska. La
brador. Newfoundland. Old and New
Mexico and New Brunswick. and