The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1932, Page 7

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1932. BARNEY GOOGLE THE (SLE OF SULY SITUATED 1N THE OOBY- JOORY SEra OFF THE COAST of oQFon — TS HISToRICAL BACKGROUAD WITH RELICS OF AMNCIEAT AND ME DIEVAL CNVILIZATION, ARTISTIC TREASURES AND NATURAL BEAUTY = RANGING FROM THE, SNOW-CAPPED MAuNTAINS Te THE, PICTURE SQUE BAY HAD Al APPEAL WHICH 1S UNSLRPASSED I AV TounTRY.— BUT= AND SPARK PLUG By BILLE DE BECK WhHite The | SULTAN REMAIRG N, AMERICA B EAR FROM HIS i CALACE AND W GOLDEN THRoONE THE LGLY MUTTERINGS B OF A DISConTenT § i €D PopuLaCE. Wit Scon de REGULATIONS BIVE ASSURANGE OF PROTECTION § Alaskans Favor Preserva- tion of Territory's Wild Life b4 ] i (Continuec irom Page Two: Holzworth has heen u 1y tive in demanding Admiralty land as a sanctuary for be: j originally claimed there ar f bear in the island, but la duced his estimate to 3,000. he said, is 50 per a's bear population. Ad- miralty Island has an area of l about 1,600 square miles. The total brown bear range on the Alaska J| coast contains about 96,000 square wiles. It includes, besides Ad- miralty, such islands as Chichagof, | Baranof, Kodiak, Kenai Peninsula, the Glacier Bay national monu- ment, and the mainland between jj Yakutat and Katalla, to mention cnly those districts where the brown bear abounds. Ts it logical to sup- f pose that 50 per cent of the hear of the entire ra to use the | Holzworth figures, is concentrated 1.7 per cent of its total ? Actual Cenditions Reviewed f £J Of course it isn't! f of fact, on Unimak Island alone, | where hunting is forbidden, there are as many bears as there are oh Admiralty Island. ac- Is- He 000 T Te- This cent 3 | ahd Baranof have almost as many, | timber growths prevailing through- |, tnis subject. It seems strange Kodiak Island is not far behind either of them. jat stretches more than 600 miles from Cook Inlet to the base of | the Aleutian Tsland chain, is the Of counterparts all along the thou-|,r those urging the sanct higgest single bear area in the ‘Perritory. No one knows, or can | oven approximate, the number of bears on it, but there are known t be literally thousands. | © On the shores of the Gulf of Alaska, between Yakutat and Ka- | talla, in what is termed the Male- | spina Glacier district, is another brown bear haunt that is classed I as the equal to the finest in Al- aska. Despite its comparative nearness to civilization, it is the most inaccessible in the Territory It hasn‘t a single sheltered harb | Jand owing to dangers of navi tion, few boats venture there with hunting parties. It is not to be reached by a land expedition from either west or east except under greater hardships and more ex- cessive o than even the most enthusiastic sportsman cares to contemplate. Bears Not Easily Reached No. 2—This is almost completely answered by my comments on the so-called investigations. Tt is true that the islands are accessible to} residents of nearby smaller islands where foxes are grown by breed- ers, and to salmon fishing vessels. Except for a few weeks in mid- summer, however, the bear is not accessible even though the islands are. (In the spawning season, when salmon fill the streams, and bears congregate to gorge them- ,selves on spawning fish, it would be easy for an experienced hunter <to kill many. But it is not done. First, indiscriminate killing, de- spite assertions to the contrary, is illegal; second, Alaskans, as has been true of all frontiersmen, are not wanton killers. They kill when they have need for food, and in some instances clothing, but the brown bears furnish neither in midsummer, or any other time. «Third, it is illegal to sell the pelts. _Consequently, Alaskans leave them very much alone. ‘Limitations on Hunters No. 3—At no time in the past two years, or for that matter for the past seven years during which the present game administration has held sway, could nonresidents kill bears except in a well defined annual season and in a limited pumber. (Two for the last two + years). Residents, in a minor frac- fion of the total range, for two years, 1930-1931, were permitted under regulations to kill bears dur- ing the closed season if their lives or property were threatened. No. 4—Fox farmers do not use brown bear meut for fox feed. In| Dall the years of the fur-raising in- dustry, but two isolated cases are on record of such a use of bear meat. In 1930, a rancher in the “-Jower Kenai Peninsula country kill- ed two brown bears gnd fed the meat to his foxes. In the same year, . another rancher near Pybus Bay on the east coast of Admiraity a? | Jus As a matter |One small patch of perpetual iceto the needs of has there been any record of such instances, nor any reported simi- | lar occurrences. Fish, swimming right at the doors of the ranches, are easier to obtain, cheaper, and less dangerous to land, and, most important of all, form a more de- sirable food for the foxes. | No Indiscriminate Slaughter No. 5—There has been no “in- discriminate slaughter,” and in- 'stead of decrease in numbers of brown bear in the past two | years, there has been an actual in- | crease. Records of the Alaska Game tCommissxon‘ a Federally-constitut- jed body composed of four resident ‘Alaskans appointed by the Secre- tary of Agriculture, and a fifth member who under the Acthof Congress, known as the Alaska Game Law, passed in 1925, must be the Alaska Agent of the Unit- ed States Biological Survey, show that in the four years, 1928, 1229, 30, and ‘31, only 26 bears were killed on Admiralty Island. If we accept the population estimate made by the National Association of Wild Life Conservationists as accurate—3,000 to the Island—then the four year kill is not equal to 5 per cent of the probable animal} increase after allowing for such| losses as infant and senile mortal- ity and internecine strife among the bears themselves. | Not Suitable For Park 6.—There is on Admiralty Island not a gle feature that would justify its creation as a rational park. Tt hasn't a glacier of sufficient size or importance to y naming, and there is only | No. There are larger brown, several other localities in | al coastal range. TIts jon it bear in \the Territor Chichagof | timber is just a repetition of the |} .quc0 Al gut Southe Alaska. Its moun- The Alaska Pen- fains are dwarfed by the giants . riceq, as much misinformation lzsula‘ that elongated strip of landOn the mainland and on :Ad]ucen*]\pl.md on so br 4 |large islands. lof them Tts beautiful, harbors, h some | ave thousands | lisands of miles of Alaska's coast | {line. ’ :sidents have not urged | “clearing” Admiralty Island. They | have, and do, urge that industrial| development of the island be per- | | mitted under sound economic pr: ;:ifes and in accord with scient | principles of f st conservation. | Ferests To Be Maintained It might interest you to know | that it would require some 75 years, to cut over ‘the pulp allotment conditionally awarded to Mr. George | T. Cameron, publisher of the San| Francisco Chronicle, and Mr. Har-| ry Chandler, of the Los iAngeles| Times, and that at the expiration| of that time and the completion of the first cutting, the experts| |of the Forest Service of the Unit- ed States are agreed that the sec- | tond growth timber and small stuff | uncut. on the first round will pro- vide an even better grade of tim- ber and more of it than was ob-! tained in the original cutting. That | doesn’t mean “clearing” fhe island, | but rather harvesting the timber | crop of a vast empire that is and| has been for many years in economic loss to both Alaska and| the nation at large, while Ameri- can manufacturers of wood-pulp | and newsprint have invested mil- lions of dollars in Canadian forests and manufacturing plants. Even Break For Wild Life In this kind of timber utiliza-| tion, wild life will be given an even break. Bears will not be ex- terminated. To some extent they will benefit, since clearly away the tangled mass of jungle and wind- fall timber that now clogs the wil- derness forests will permit natyral food such as blue berries and other berries, indigenous to the country, to grow in greater abundance than is possible under present condi- :!ions. No Alaskan has ever ad- vocated the use of poison to ex- terminate bears. An emplcyee of the Forest Service, ronce asked as to an efficient method of slaughter, obviously pointed out that poison was the most efficacious. How- ever, it is illegal to use poison in taking 'any kind of game in the Territory, and that law is rigidly enforced by Federal officers who have the fullest support from the general public. Rich Resources Affected No. 8—It -would cost 4 pretty penny to lock up Admiralty Island. There are on the island millions {of dollars worth of private prop- lerty, including large sdlmon can- neries, gold mines, logging camps, (& coal mine, several small com- munities, all of it worth a not in- considerable sum. Trappers earn their livelihood by their annual |catches from its valleys. Indians| and whites get a large portion of | | their meat supplies from the thou- | sands of Sitka deer that roam its | tor |the Senate Committee on Wild |matter more briefly but reached an | |more rabid statements, said: |hills. The Government collects tuary there would wipe out all of these activities. If it were other-| wise, the sanctuary would noi; mean anything. | No. 9.—To reiterate my criginal assertion, and again citing Sena- Walcott in its support, the; brown bear of Alaska is not now, in danger of extermination. His number has increased generally in, the past few years rather than, diminished. Present protection is| adequate, and when, and if, the| time comes that the annual kill exceeds or equals the annual na- tural increase, the people of Al-| aska, ‘if ‘permitted to do so, will| take any steps needed to curtail| the kill and protect the bears. Regulated From Washington | Just now, the people of Alaska do not have anything to say about their game regulations, These are| promulgated by the Secretary of | Agriculture and administered bYl the Alaska Game Commission, ap-, pointed by him. That body has | been given high commendation by | Life Conservation, through Senator | Walcott, who; after, having com- pleted his investigations- in 1931, | said: “The Senate Committee does not | have anything to do with ithe reg-| ulation of game animals in Alas- | ka. The Alaska Game Commis-' sion is charged by law with that | duty, and is performing sanely and | well. . . . Its policy of permitting as much utilization of all game d fur-bearing animals as is con- | sistent with the preservation and| maintenance of a healthy supply | of all of them is sound, and suited frontier country such as Alaska Scems Strange to Alaskans I have written at such length laskans feel very deeply to them that such agitation should ad a scale, when the most reliably supported facts to be had disprove the contentions | 1ary. I! appr e the Times' well-deserved reputation for accuracy and con- servative judgment, and I am sure its “Bears in Alaska” editorial was | based upon what it had eve son to believe was raliable infor- | mation. A few days after it ap- peared, the New York Heraid-Tri- bune discussed the same subject identical conclusion I notice 1t used in almost the exact words, your own phrase: “It would not cost a cent to make Admiralty Island a sanctu- ary, for it is Government px'op-k erty and now brings in no reve- nue.” | Is it not possible that you are being used by someone in the back- | ground, who is not appearing at all, through wild life conservation organizations and nature lovers whose fears have been aroused by skillful dissemination of untruths and statements of half-facts? Denied By Federal Agencies It is, indeed, surprising that a publication of the Time's caliber | and standing should accept as fact statements like those issued by the | Association of Wild Life Conser- vationists, through Mr. Holzworth, when their correctness is denied | by every responsible Government agency having to do with the ad- ministration of Alaska’s wild life| resources; and which statements have not been credited by a very large number of the most repre- hensive of eastern conservation- ists, For instance, Mr. John C. Phil- lips, Chairman of the International Wwild Life Protection, American | Committee, in a letter dated April 26, last, commenting on 4 detailed | reply the Daily Alaska Empire made to some of Mr. Holzworth's | “I want to congratulate you on the very thorough expose of this gentleman's activities. | I have been interested in a modest way for some months in trying to debunk Mr. Holz- worth myself, but in spite of all efforts he continues to stand on the soap box and ad- dress every meeting where peo- ple interested in natural his- tory and conservation are as- sembled. . . . I know you gen- tlemen in Alaska will not think we are all cranks in this part of the world. Thank you for doing us a real service.” Composed of Eminent Persons The Executive Commfttee of the | body of which Mr. Phillips s chairman is composed of himself for the Boone & Crockett Club, | Mr. Kermit Roosevelt for the New | York Zoological Society, Mr. George | D. Pratt, President of the Ameri- | can Forestry Association, for the American Museum of Natural His- tory, Harold J. Coolidge, Jr., for the Boone & Crockett Club. Th:enfii larated from Admiralty and Chi- |fect. And it does not have the|tpat Bear Ccensus To Be Taken NOTICE OF HEARING OF It is worthy of note that the FINAL ACCOUNT United States Forest Service »and |In the Commissioner's Court for the Alaska Game Commission, act-| the Territory of Alaska, Division | ing Jointly, this summer will under- | Number One. : | take to make a census 'of the brown |Before CHAS. SEY, .Commissioner | bear on Admiralty Island. It should| and ex-Officio Probate Judge Ju- be complete by next fall, and the| neau Precinct. In the Matter of the Estate .of figures obtained ought to set m;. | rest .the minds of those conserva-| VIVIENNE MORRISON, dec-| tionists who are genuinely concern- | ;’:g;_efc‘E B T G 1ed about resent status of the great, m“mls_p s O ™€ That Lorraine G. Morrison, execut- | or of the estate of Vivienne Mor- In conclusion, let me assure ycu rison, deceased, has filed herein his that -the people of Alaska are mot yn.' pecount of his administration al_m-bbm\m bear. They fully TecoB- | ;e gatd estate, and a petition for i th o Rl 18 valuable asset, \gaoree of distribution, and that a :ne % \;Lmb_‘v 'r_n:my blg Hfime hearing will be had upon thg same oioers and. brings thousands of efore thie undersighed ab-Jiineau, plored. int into normal channels of| 2 o v i Alaska, at 2 a'clock p. m. on the Many Kinds of Wild Life trade that otherwise would never jorn qay of August 1232 atowhgch In it are many brown bears,|gee Alaska. The: ¢ . 2t sk y will not willingly | P possibly as many as can be found!see it destroyed. They realize it Qe NI IR all Darsonstinwer- £ 2 7 b e A SO SFREE Hested ‘may appear and file objec- on Admiralty Island, and other|pas ce h o 1ly, a 3 A b % . ol e e tam | 05 @ Place hexe econpmically, {88 tions (in jwriting ‘to sdid docouht species of wild 1life, mountam |well as scientifically. | A b same; f’;g;‘u; {zrn m;‘sx‘;‘alt?m A(;:sk:g; Suppert Governmenx Policy - | GIVEN under my hand and the seal have endorsed this proposal This is evidenced by the fact that of the Probate Court this 18th day e {they have supported the Federal of June, 1932. The proposed park area is sep-|government’s sanctuary policy that| = (Seal) CHAS. SEY, has given already to the brown Commissioner and ex-Officio Pro- bear areas aggregating 7,868 square“ bate Judge, Juneau Precinct. miles, or 8 per cent of the total PFirst publication, June 18, 1932. jrange, of absolute sanctuary, not|Last publication, July 9, 1932. including Mt. McKinely National: Park, and some 41,000 square miles' of extremely limited hur Ts it cause for wi the Admiralty Island pro-|yiew of all tr laskans view in 1931, at 30 East 40th Street, M, Willlam N. Beach, 551 Fifth Av- enue, and a member of the Ex- plorer's Club, are two who are thoroughly conversant with the Alaska bear situation. The Senate Committee on Con- servation of Wild Life Resources, through Senator Walcott has sug- gested creation of a national park out of the present Glacier Bay National Monument. Here are real natural phenomena, such as the galaxy of great glaciers—Muir. Spencer, Wright and others; lofty Mt. Fairweather that crowns the range of the same name; virgin Sitka spruce forests, good harbors for ingress, a land almost unex- chagof islands by narrow salt water straits and is from but a few miles distant to not more than 30. 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