. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. 1931 —BIENNIAL REPORT —1932 Page Eleven It Easier for the Sportsmiae By Sid .1. Coffee, Missdiila, President Montana Automobile Association. INKED so closely as to be almost inseparable, are the sports of fish- ing and hunting with good roads in Mon- tana. To thousands of tourists and a ma- jority of home folks, smooth highways would be meaningless and valueless unless they offered acces- sibility to regions where fishing is un- paralleled
. Biennial report, Montana Game and Fish Commission, State of Montana. Montana Fish and Game Commission; Game protection; Wildlife conservation; Fisheries. 1931 —BIENNIAL REPORT —1932 Page Eleven It Easier for the Sportsmiae By Sid .1. Coffee, Missdiila, President Montana Automobile Association. INKED so closely as to be almost inseparable, are the sports of fish- ing and hunting with good roads in Mon- tana. To thousands of tourists and a ma- jority of home folks, smooth highways would be meaningless and valueless unless they offered acces- sibility to regions where fishing is un- paralleled and hunting is good. Dur- ing its existence, the Montana Automo- bile Association has been alive to this close connection between highways and wild life sports and has conducted a certain part of its work and publicity on the basis that this . relation is a valuable agent for bringing tourists to this part of the northwest. Montana, which is a state of dis- tances, has a reputation renowned for sports found outside city limits. Her most beautiful lakes are those far up in the mountains, the best fishing is in the bubbling mountain streams and the most suitable camping and hunting grounds often lie miles from a town. Montanans are in the habit of entertain- ing, not only themselves, but their out- of-state guests and visitors on fishing and hunting trips to spots which, be- fore the advent of the automobile and roads, were all but unknown and in- accessible to even the most enthusi- astic of sportsmen. The combination of the automobile and good highways is a chief reason for many Montanans becoming interested in such sports. To- day men speed in cars through north- western wilderness where once they plodded patiently on foot. During the last two years a good part of the $21,000,000 which the state has used for road development and building was devoted to bettering and building highways, mostly in the moun- tain and forest regions. Places reputed unexcelled as hunting and fis
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