Seward daily gateway., 1925-09-22
SEWARD INCLUDED ESTIMATE OFFICE
 GAME WARDEN
kENAI PENINSULA LEADS ALL DISTRICTS IN ALASKA FOR
 BIG GAME HUNTS.
E. P. Walker On Visit
New Game Laws Meets with Approv- al of Greater Majority of
 AIaskans.

Completing his first trip about the Territory since the creation of the Alaska Game Commission, and the reallignment of game warden and fur warden forces, on a quest Of knowledge of game and fur condi- tions, and to hold conferences with 1 the wardens of the Interior, E. P. Walker, executive officer for the com mission, arrived in Seward Sunday from Fairbanks. Following a con- ference in this city with MT. Abrams, U. s. Cuttoms' officer and Leon Ur bach, local licensing officer for the commission, MT. Walker continued on to his Juneau headquarters on the steamer Alaska, which departed for l the South, Monday morning.
 Meets with Approval.
 l ''Throughout the Territory, as a whole, the people appear to be unanimously in accord with the new Alaska game laws, and nave freely expressed their pleasure to me, of the recent change" MT. Walker stat ed to the Seward Gateway Sunday. "On this trip, which have just about completed, I have been seek | ing constructive criticisms, in order D work out possible certain revis- ions in the new laws. The law, as it now reads, seems to be just about right and I doubt there will be but little material changes 10 be recom- mended.
 Fur Greatest Asset, Yukon
 This amiable feeling, with respect to the new game laws, is particular ly noticeable, especially on the up- per Yukon river The residents in that region, without an exception stated the fur industry was their greatest asset. They exprcssel them selves as being highly pleased with that portion of the new law which prohibits aliens from owning or hav- ing in their possession, firearms. Al so that section which prohibits aliens from trapping unless they have talk en out the $10O alien special license. The provision preventing aliens from enjoying the resident citizen priyi- leges after he is allowed his first set of papers to expire, thereby be- ing classed as an alien, found was particular pleasing to many in the Interior Regarding the alien pur- chasing furs in Alaska, he must De armed with a $500 license"
 Wild Life Protection.
 The importance of protecting the wild game life of the Territory was l stressed by MT. Walker, who said he was very much pleased to note the splendid improvement in the general attitude of the situation
 People in the Interior regions have come to realize the great value Of the wild life and the need for it's l vigouous protection. The attention l of Mr.. Walker was called by the l Seward Gateway, to the article ap l bearing in one of it's recent mum
 bers in which P. D. Beaulieu, ot : Winner, s. D., who recently, com - pleted a big game hunt in this re
 zion and who is now in the Inte rior, stated that unless some precau
 tion or regulation is put into effect
 on the Alaska brown bear, they will be exterminated. In the article MT
 Beaulieu stated many hunters were annually coming to Alaska from
 thousands of miles distances, and
 practically all of them arrived with
 the idea of bagging brown bear. MT. Walker said he agreed with
 MT. Beaulieu on his point, that the
 brown bear of Alaska should be pro
 tected. The average Alaskan does
 not realize the financial asset and
 the tremendous amount of publicity
 the Territory receives from the big
 brown bear, which is confined to the
 coastal regions of Southeastern ant
 Southwestern Alaska.
 Bear, Fur Bearing Animal
 l The black bear is classed as a fur
 bearing animal, it is learned, ant
 cannot be taken unless a trapping l license is taken out, which license
 costs $2.0O. The trapping license naturally gives the possessor tht