The fatalistic idea that bag-limit laws can save the game is today the curse of all our game birds, mammals and fishes! It is a fraud, a delusion and a snare. That miserable fetch has been worshipped much too long. Our game is being exterminated, everywhere, by blind insistence upon "open seasons," and solemn reliance upon "legal bag-limits."

Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation, Preface (p. x), Charles Scribner's Sons. 1913