American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . ess add to it bytheir presence a charm which it can acquire in noother way. On every ground it is well for ournation to preserve, not only for the sake of thisgeneration, but above all for the sake of those whocome after us, representatives of the stately andbeautiful haunters of the wilds which were oncefound throughout our great forests, over the vastlonely plains, and on the high mountain ranges,but which are now on the point of vanishing savewhere they are protected in natural breedinggrounds and nurseries. The work
American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . ess add to it bytheir presence a charm which it can acquire in noother way. On every ground it is well for ournation to preserve, not only for the sake of thisgeneration, but above all for the sake of those whocome after us, representatives of the stately andbeautiful haunters of the wilds which were oncefound throughout our great forests, over the vastlonely plains, and on the high mountain ranges,but which are now on the point of vanishing savewhere they are protected in natural breedinggrounds and nurseries. The work of preservationmust be carried on in such a way as to make it evi-dent that we are working In the interest of the peo-ple as a whole, not in the interest of any particularclass; and that the people benefited beyond allothers are those who dwell nearest to the regionsin which the reserves are placed. The movementfor the preservation by the nation of sections of thewilderness as national playgrounds is essentially ademocratic movement in the interest of all ourpeople. 24. Wilderness Reserves On April 8,1903, John Burroughs and I reachedthe Yellowstone Park and were met by MajorJohn Pitcher of the Regular Army, the Superin-tendent of the Park. The Major and I forthwithtook horses; he telling me that he could show mea good deal of game while riding up to his houseat the Mammoth Hot Springs. Hardly had we leftthe little town of Gardiner and gotten within thelimits of the Park before we saw was a band of at least a hundred feedingsome distance from the road. We rode leisurelytoward them. They were tame compared to theirkindred In unprotected places; that is, it was easyto ride within fair rifle range of them; but theywere not familiar in the sense that we afterwardsfound the bighorn and the deer to be the two hours following my entry into thePark we rode around the plains and lower slopesof the foothills in the neighborhood of the mouthof the Gardine
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