FISH AND GAME: NOW OR NEVER. A CHALLENGE TO AMERICAN SPORTSMEN ON WILD-LIFE RESTORATION. By Harry Bartow Hawes.

1935 1st edition. 8vo (145 x 212mm). Ppxx,332. B/w photographs, b/w illustrations by William H. Foster, bibliography. Green cloth, upper board and spine titled in gilt.

A look at the immediate need for the preservation of North American game and how best to go about it". My own thesis in respect to conservation is that the hunter is the best and most intelligent friend of game; the fisherman the best and most intelligent friend of fish, and that the sentimentalist can be helpful only in so far as he or she has the vision of planned conservation in its broadest scope. I have tried not to be too technical and scientific, and legal and other phases of conservation in my book, and have sought to point the way to a practical solution of what is now a national problem, the protection and replenishment of our wild life or its extermination through our failure to unite on a workable system for its preservation". (From the author's foreword). Chapters include:- Patriotic duty; The ancestral background; 'A land of plenty'; Forces of destruction; Ownership of game; Migration of ducks, brant, and geese; Federal control; Perfecting federal control; State control; The farmer; Conservation and fishing; Pollution; Cripples; Duties of hunters and fishermen; Sentimentalists; Organized and unorganized forces of conservation; Summary and a practical plan; Our big outdoors.