Our Vanishing Wild Life

The preservation of animal and plant life and of the general beauty of Nature is one of the foremost duties of the men and women of to-day. It is an imperative duty, because it must be performed at once, for other wise it will be too late. Every possible means of preservation sentimental education and legislative must be employed. The present warning issues with no uncertain sound, because this great battle for preservation and conservation cannot be won by gentle tones, nor by appeals to the aesthetic instincts of those who have no sense of beauty, or enjoyment of Nature. Travels through Europe, as well as over a large part of the North American continent, have convinced me that nowhere is Nature being destroyed so rapidly as in the United States.