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Card #c327IR // #c327Synthesis

The secretary of forestry and game preservation had a much easier time, thanks to the new system of National Mounted Police.

— In our words · Source: The King in Yellow (Robert W. Chambers)

[Use when]

Use when environmental offices quietly depend on expanded police capacity.

[Why it matters]

A conservation bureaucracy runs smoother when enforcement is a new national police — green policy riding a security buildout.

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