Resolution passed "by the Executive Committee of the Boone and Crockett Club at a meeting held March 9th, 1926.
WHEREAS, for many years the Bureau of Biological Survey, sided by the reports of its corps of highly trained observers, has devoted to the question of wild life protection an intensive study over the whole territory of the United States, and
WHEREAS, from time to time occasions arise where persons or groups, influenced by local conditions or by the hasty reports of uninformed observers, endeavor by public outcry and newspaper claimor to attract attention to their own theories on conservation methods and to criticise the work of the Biological Survey, and
WHEREAS, such efforts to alarm the public and to cast doubt on our most conservative and dependable source of information as to an important natural resource and its sound administration are most harmful, and
WHEREAS, the Boone and Crockett Club has, by continuous observation and study made itself familiar with that part of the work of the Biological Survey relating to the conservation of wild life, therefore be it
RESOLVED, that the Boone and Crockett Club heartily approves the administrative work that has been done andnow is being done by the Bureau of Biological Survey, work based on facts patiently gathered from all over the United States, to which facts are applied the most approved scientific methods, and further be it
RESOLVED, that the Club offers to the Survey its hearty commendation and support, and calls for the same support to the Survey from all the thoughtful public.
Boone and Crockett Club Records (Mss 738), Archives and Special Collections. Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library. University of Montana-Missoula.
WHEREAS, various "bills affecting grazing on the National Forests on the public domain have been introduced in Congress which hills threaten the public rights and therefore demand public attention, and
WHEREAS, of these bills, that introduced by Senator Stanfield (S.2584) is one of the most radical and is in effect a demand by the livestock interests that Congress take from the public its rights in the National Forests and the public domain and transfer these rights to the livestock interests, thus giving to this industry in the west the ownership rights of 100,000,000 people, and,
WHEREAS, the history of such grazing rights in Europe for hundreds of years shows that they have injured the Forests there, have proved a permanent harm to the regions where they exist, and now cannot be gotten rid of, and
WHEREAS, this bill seriously threatens the continued existence of our National Forests and would take from the public and transfer to the livestock industry property worth millions of dollars, besides threatening with ruin the grazing range on the public domain, and,
WHEREAS, this matter is now, as it was twenty years ago, a question between the existing rights to the public and the hoped for advantage of private individuals or commercial corporations, now therefore be it
RESOLVED that the Boone and Crockett Club places itself on record as opposed to all projects which interfere with the public rights now guarded by the Department of Agriculture, and to any legislation looking toward a change in the present methods of protecting the National Forests, and be it further
RESOLVED, that we oppose all bills that threaten the
Boone and Crockett Club Records (Mss 738), Archives and Special Collections. Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library. University of Montana-Missoula.
future of our water supply and of our forests, and all uses of the National "Forests or the public domain which are based on private welfare as distinguished from piblic welfare; and we urge that proposed legislation on these and kindred subjects be in the direction of giving to the Agricultural Department increased authority to control the forests and to protect the grazing range on the public domain.
Boone and Crockett Club Records (Mss 738), Archives and Special Collections. Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library. University of Montana-Missoula.
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