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code promulgated in the Club that eventual legislation reflected its
input in such areas as restricted seasons, protected seasons for mating,
gender-based and otherwise limited bags, outlawing of unfair hunting
methods and, of course, poaching.
Conservation measures were so effective that game multiplied
well beyond the requirements of a small elite sport hunting
conununity. The vision of this faux-aristocracy went far to guarantee
game availability for members of the masses. Where the commercial
hunter was entirely acquisition minded and the European Manor Bom
Aristocrat more a shooter than a hunter, this rapidly evolving type—
perhaps best typified by Theodore Roosevelt-came to understand the
natural food-chain and the attendant cycle of life, death, decay,
rebirth. They opted to examine closely the red tooth and talon of
nature.
Much of the thrust of e \