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Kodiak. Only the wealthy sports
men of the States can afford to
hunt them. After he pays his li
cense and a thousand or two dol
lars for guides and camp equip
ment, he is allowed to take out
Don’t miss the “Talkies!”
two pelts to mount in his trophy
room. He’s proud of it and thinks
he’s got his money’s worth. On
the other hand, if the native or
resident of Alaska kills a bear he
can’t ship the pelt Outsde; hence
he has no motive to kill. If he
is a stockman he can kill out of
season if he catches a bear kill
ing his sheep or cattle.
It is unfortunate that these na
tionally writers, who also claim
1 to be sportsmen, are not better
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informed of their subject. They
say that the Kodiak bear which
sometimes reaches a weight of a
ton and has a pelt 12 feet long only
occurs on Kodiak Island and that
if protection were lifted he might
become exterminated to the ever
lasting disgrace of this generation.
They seem to lose entire sight of
the fact that all the Alaska Penin
sula literally swarms with bears,
many of them bigger and better
than the Kodiak bear. If they
hunted them concertedly the next
thousand years, they could not ex
terminate them. If you will recall
something that Dr. Riggs wrote in
the National Geographic Magazine
after he had visited the Valley of
Ten Thousand Smokes, you will
remember that he saw bear tracks
that were something like 14 inches
wide by 16 inches long or “about
the size of this magazine spread
out.”
The bears live practically all
I over the timbered section of Al
I aska. I have seen what we call a
grizzly pulling down a full-grown
moose in the White mountains
near the Yukon. They kill more
good game than the hunters do.
To say that they are not killers
of cattle and sheep is absurd to us
who suffer their depredations ev
ery year. They have taken cattle
from the government’s own herd
on Kodiak. From the H. S. Ab
bert ranch, four miles from the
town of Kodiak, where he is run
ning 200 head of cattle and 350
Isheep, the annual takings are stag
(| gering. He estimates a loss of $12,
! 000 in the past several years. He
! credits the bear with most of his
profits. There are a number of
instances where small ranchers
have lost their entire herds of a
dozen sheep and cattle in one on
slaught of the bears.
, nuu mey wc cau i cai/
| tie out here. We wonder if they
(ever heard of the three head of
j cattle that were left on Chirikof
Island years ago and thrived
there alone and unmolested all
this time until they now number
something like 300 head of wild
cattle. Some of the bulls on that
island weigh a ton. During the
past winter one of the homestead
ers in the vicinity of Kodiak was
called away and left his cattle
without feed or attention. They
were still in good condition when
they welcomed the spring grass.
The bear is a terrible engine of
destruction against salmon. When
the run is on he will stand in the
stream and flip the fish onto the
bank. He likes to see their silvery
bodies sailing through the air. He
eats a few but leaves hundreds to
rot. Just why the government
should maintain fish hatcheries
to increase salmon and protect
bear which destroy salmon is hard
to figure out. Why should the Al
aska Railroad be inviting settlers
j in when another department of
government seeks to protect the
predatory animals that will make
it more difficult for those settlers?
Will you please write the answer?
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