Let us bear in mind the fact that Alaska is being throughly “opened up” to the Man with a Gun.  Here is the latest evidence, from the new circular of an outfitter: 

“I will have plenty of good horses, and good, competent and courteous guides; also other camp attendants if desired.  My intention is to establish permanently at that point, as I believe it is the gateway to the finest and about the last of the great game countries of North America.”

The road is open; the pack-train is ready; the guides are waiting.  Go on and slay the Remnant!

ARIZONA: 

  The band-tailed pigeons and all non-game birds should immediately be
  given protection; and a salaried warden system should be established
  under a Commissioner whose term is not less than four years.

  The use of automatic and pump guns, in hunting, should be
  prohibited.

  Spring shooting should be prohibited.

Arizona has good reason to be proud of her up-to-date position in the ranks of the best game-protecting states.  No other state or territory of her age ever has made so good a showing of protective laws.  The enactment of laws to cover the points mentioned above would leave little to be desired in Arizona.  That state has a bird fauna well worth protecting, and game wardens are extremely necessary.

ARKANSAS: 

  The enforcement of game laws should be placed in charge of a
  salaried commissioner.

  Spring shooting of wildfowl should be stopped at once.

  A reasonable close season should be provided for water fowl, and
  swans should be protected throughout the year.

  A bag-limit law should be enacted.

  A force of game wardens, salaried and unsalaried, should at once be
  created.

  The killing of female deer and the hounding of deer, should be
  stopped.

  No buck deer should be shot, unless horns three inches long are seen
  before firing.

  A hunter’s license law is necessary; and the fees should go to the
  support of the game protection department.

  The local exemptions in favor of market hunters in Mississippi
  county should be repealed.

It appears that in Arkansas the laws for the protection and increase of wild life are by no means up to the mark.  At this moment, Arkansas is next to Florida, the rearmost of all our states in wild-life protection.  Awake, Arkansas!  Consider the peril that threatens your fauna.  The Sunk Lands, in your northeastern corner along the St. Francis River, are the greatest wild-fowl refuge anywhere in the Mississippi Valley between the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and the breeding-grounds of Minnesota.  A duty to the nation devolves upon you, to protect the migratory waterfowl that visit your great bird refuge from the automatic and pump guns of the pothunters who shoot for northern markets, and kill all that they can kill. Protect those Sunken Lands!  Confer a boon on all the people of the Mississippi Valley by making that region a bird refuge in fact as well as in name.