. Our wild fowl and waders . ur indigenous wild foodbirds or keep them abundant in our markets. One reasonis that the laws cannot be properly executed. The areato be policed is too big. Mr. L. T. Carleton, of Maine,one of the best State game officers, has well said that theentire State militia would be inadequate to properly pro-tect the game. But even if it were possible to executethe game laws, there are good reasons why they wouldnot save the wild fowl. In settled regions the nestingand feeding grounds of the ducks have been destroyed,and in the Far North the marshes are now being
. Our wild fowl and waders . ur indigenous wild foodbirds or keep them abundant in our markets. One reasonis that the laws cannot be properly executed. The areato be policed is too big. Mr. L. T. Carleton, of Maine,one of the best State game officers, has well said that theentire State militia would be inadequate to properly pro-tect the game. But even if it were possible to executethe game laws, there are good reasons why they wouldnot save the wild fowl. In settled regions the nestingand feeding grounds of the ducks have been destroyed,and in the Far North the marshes are now being of the chief causes for the decrease in the num-bers of our wild ducks is undoubtedly the draining of themarshes and the destruction of their breeding and feed-ing grounds. Nearly all of the desirable ducks whichare shot in the United States east of the Rocky Moun-tains are bred in a comparatively small area, which maybe described roughly as including parts of Wisconsin,Minnesota and North Dakota and parts of the Canadian. £Ujl, hsUJL fiU^tJi^i tsb^tA- 0*a-J t-^+T^lL- <M-* <^
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