The Daily Alaska empire., 1938-10-25
THAT ADMIRALTY PARK IDEA AGAIN

Some years ago there was considerable agitation for making Admiralty Island into national park an idea advanced by Stewart Edward White, well known writer for protecting the famed Alaska brown bear The idea was later dropped after vigorous pro- tests from Aaskans and a bear count had shown substantial bear population on the island.
 But for the last year or more the thought of mak- ing a park out of Admiralty has been brewing anew of the most ardent supporters of the plan this time is another writer, John M Hozworth, not as well known as was Author White but just imbued with the scheme to make park of the island.
 MT Hozworth was north about 10 years ago and made visit to Admiralty This summer he was up again and spent very short time of the creeks tho island In recent copy of the official organ of the Seattle Audubon Society the bear en- thusast had article in which he describes Ad- miralty Island of ten years ago literally paradise with wild life abounding particularly his beloved brown bear, but this year ah me, he went away with "a heavy heart' He found from his brief visit to one creek that the sportsmen have married the brown and grizzly bear into hiding" From his one-creek obser vauon point T not one-tenth of the bears in evidence 1908" Writer Holzworth goes on to attack the bear management plan failure and concluded with plea for sanctuary the island
 But there is more to the Admiralty Island park idea than the ugerances of cuick-hipper Holzworth sea1etar Harold | Iek5s af Ifa Interior Department who Daid Alaska HisIt lili. past made an address two weeks ago in st Lotus On national parks and in the course o lis remarks made as eofuDent.
 We aeed 2 ereai national park in Alaska fer tbe spacsaf purpose Of preserving tbe Alasks brown eaar. Thee gigantic animals winch you knoU 50 well tsn Yom St Laua ze2 tae mlghdast mammals on the American continent are headed straight ter e4term- nation unless our government sets aside sanctuary suitable for their habitat and large enough for their maintenance
 sene people in Alaska dislike these bears because farmers do not like them because they kill the foxes So they call the bears predators You know our habit Whenever wild animal does the same things that we do, we call it a predator or vermn and proceed to kill it off So in Alaska they killing off the brown bears just they killing off the American eagle. do not blame any particular fox farmer for killing any particular bear but surely in wilder ness like Alaska which is larger than all the States that border the Mississippi River, with total population smaller than that of the city of Davenport Ia surely in such vast and almost empty wilderness wilderness publicly owned we can set aside an area big enough to preserve the Alaska brown bear from extermination.
 T have singled out these four possible national parks-the Everglades, Redwood Mountain Big Bend and the Alaska bear sanctuary, because they are scattered from the southern tip of the Atlantic cause every of them represents race against time in order to prevent destruction of the object it is desirable to savedestructon of wild life the