. Conservation of fish, birds and game . nderstand that this Act is now undergoing somevery necessary revision. We need in that north country a much morevigorous policy than we have at present, especially a policy that willactually carry out the law as it is set forth in our Act. I will referparticularly to one case, namely, that of the caribou, which this Com-mission has had under consideration for some time. Stefansson, whois a very ardent advocate of the rights of the Eskimo, and who con-sequently became an equally ardent advocate of the necessity of betterprotection of the caribou in that
. Conservation of fish, birds and game . nderstand that this Act is now undergoing somevery necessary revision. We need in that north country a much morevigorous policy than we have at present, especially a policy that willactually carry out the law as it is set forth in our Act. I will referparticularly to one case, namely, that of the caribou, which this Com-mission has had under consideration for some time. Stefansson, whois a very ardent advocate of the rights of the Eskimo, and who con-sequently became an equally ardent advocate of the necessity of betterprotection of the caribou in that northern country, has noted andcalled our attention to the serious conditions in the north in regard tocaribou. The people have rather regarded the caribou as occurringin herds of millions and, when you begin to think of millions, you areliable to assume the impossibility of extermination. As a matter offact, the caribou has been totally exterminated in some this question of the preservation and protection of the caribou. Big-horn Sheep at Vermilion I^kes, Alta. ■■j Him ^^^^^^^J ^ *i| . ^ ^ ^ ^ fl r irfW^B Bff-^ /., 1 n J ^ /f a i^B i ■ ^m Ki» - .T - .§ .^m^w- ■ • 7* -^ KS-^^. ^^^ -^^^liHi Deer in Kuck\ MuuiiUuns Iaik, Alia. CONSERVATION OF BIRDS AND MAMMALS 147 was under our consideration, I had a letter from Dr. H. W. Hcnshavv,Chief of the Biological Survey of the United States Dept. of Agricul-ture, which is charged with the preservation of game in the NationalReserves in the United States. I was discussing with him the generalquestion of the preservation of the caribou in Alaska and northernCanada and, replying on the 21st July, 1914, to my request for hisopinions on certain matters, he said in part: I consider it very important for the preservation of the caribouthat the females should be permanently protected. It is a well-knownfact that caribou are now extinct in considerable areas in NorthAmerica where formerly they were common, and that thei
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