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...Sportsman White Flayed...
...sportsman of the United States to say whether or not Alaska shall pass certain laws? Since when have we elected men to office on their reputation as sportsmen. . . . Why should human lives be endangered to save a handful of the most ferocious mammals living in North America today...
...Sportsman White" make good his boast of shooting "almost every bear on any given river in a week, thus cleaning out a habitat of about 100 square miles." I greatly fear the bear would win in the struggle for supremacy...
...Sportsman White denied that bears are responsible for the depletion of Alaska's salmon streams. His reasoning: Bears "must always have eaten as many salmon as they do today. . . . There was no depletion even after we came along, as long as we fished reasonably...
...fact that bears migrate from mountains to river valleys each year for their annual salmon gorge almost insures their extermination if their enemies set systematically about the task. Says Sportsman White: "If I were so inclined, I think I could shoot almost every bear on any given river in a week and thus clean out a habitat of hundreds of square miles...