otection of elk, antelope and sheep (until 1913)
should be extended for twenty years.

Utah should create a big-game preserve, at once.

If Utah proposes to save even a remnant of her wild life for posterity,
she must be up and doing.

VERMONT:

In view of all conditions, it must be stated that the game laws of
Vermont are, with but slight exceptions, in good condition. It is a
pleasure to see that there is no spring shooting; that there is no
"open" season of slaughter for the moose, caribou, wood-duck, swan,
upland plover, dove or rail; that no buck deer with antlers less than
three inches long may be killed; and that there is a law under which
damages by deer to growing crops may be assessed and paid for by the
county in which they occur. Moreover, if there is to be any killing of
game, her bag limits are not extravagant. All the game protected by the
state is immune from sale for food purposes, but preserve-reared game
may legally be sold. We recommend the following new measures:

Absolute close seasons of five-years' duration for ruffed grouse,
quail, woodcock, snipe and all shore birds without a single
exception.

The gray squirrel should be perpetually protected,--because he is
too beautiful, too companionable and too unfit for food to be
killed. Even the hungry savages of the East Indies do not eat
squirrels.

Pass an automatic pump-gun law.

Extend the term of the Fish and Game Commissioner to four years.

Vermont's great success in introducing and colonizing deer is both
interesting and valuable. Fifty years ago, she had no wild deer, because
the species had been practically exterminated. In 1875, thirteen deer
were imported from the Adirondacks and set free in the mountains. The
increase has been enormous. In 1909 the number of deer killed for the
year was about 5,311, which was possible without adversely affecting the
herds. It is a striking object-lesson in restoring the white-tailed deer
to its own, and it will be found more fully described in chapter XXIV.

VIRGINIA:

Virginia is far below the position that she should occupy in wild-life
conservation. To set her house in order, and come up to the level of the
states that have been born during the past twenty years, she must bestir
herself in these ways:

She must provide for a resident hunting license, a State Game
Commissioner and a force of salaried wardens.

She must prohibit spring shooting.

She must i