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| Hornaday, W.T. | |
| Our vanishing wild life - its extermination and preservation | |
| 1913 Full Book | |
Beyond question, we are exterminating our finest species of mammals, birds and fishes _according to law!_ I am appalled by the mass of evidence proving that throughout the entire United States and Canada, in every state and province, the existing legal system for the preservation of wild life is fatally defective. The rage for wild-life slaughter is far more prevalent to-day throughout the world than it was in 1872, when the buffalo butchers paved the prairies of Texas and Colorado with festering carcasses. _The game of North America does not belong wholly and exclusively to the men who kill! The other ninety-seven per cent of the People have vested rights in it, far exceeding those of the three per cent. Posterity has claims upon it that no honest man can ignore._ It is time for a sweeping Reformation; and that is precisely what we now demand. This volume is in every sense a contribution to a Cause; and as such it ever will remain. |
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