1.  The wild animal life of to-day is not ours, to do with as we please.  The original stock is given to us in trust, for the benefit both of the present and the future.  We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.

2.  Judging from the rate at which the wild creatures of North America are now being destroyed, fifty years hence there will be no large game left in the United States nor in Canada, outside of rigidly protected game preserves.  It is therefore the duty of every good citizen to promote the protection of forests and wild life and the creation of game preserves, while a supply of game remains.  Every man who finds pleasure in hunting or fishing should be willing to spend both time and money in active work for the protection of forests, fish and game.

  3.  The sale of game is incompatible with the perpetual preservation
  of a proper stock of game; therefore it should be prohibited by laws
  and by public sentiment.

4.  In the settled and civilized regions of North America there is no real necessity for the consumption of wild game as human food:  nor is there any good excuse for the sale of game for food purposes.  The maintenance of hired laborers on wild game should be prohibited everywhere, under severe penalties.

5.  An Indian has no more right to kill wild game, or to subsist upon it all the year round, than any white man in the same locality.  The Indian has no inherent or God-given ownership of the game of North America, anymore than of its mineral resources; and he should be governed by the same game laws as white men.

  6.  No man can be a good citizen and also be a slaughterer of game or
  fishes beyond the narrow limits compatible with high-class
  sportsmanship.

  7.  A game-butcher or a market-hunter is an undesirable citizen, and
  should be treated as such.

8.  The highest purpose which the killing of wild game and game fishes can hereafter be made to serve is in furnishing objects to overworked men for tramping and camping trips in the wilds; and the value of wild game as human food should no longer be regarded as an important factor in its pursuit.

  9.  If rightly conserved, wild game constitutes a valuable asset to
  any country which possesses it; and it is good statesmanship to
  protect it.

  10.  An ideal hunting trip consists of a good comrade, fine country,
  and a very few trophies per hunter.

  11.  In an ideal hunting trip, the death of the game is only an
  incident; and by no means is it really necessary to a successful
  outing.

  12.  The best hunter is the man who finds the most game, kills the
  least, and leaves behind him no wounded animals.

  13.  The killing of an animal means the end of its most interesting
  period.  When the country is fine, pursuit is more interesting than
  possession.