The Audubon Societies 



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NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION 



In May, 1919, there was organized in 

 Washington, D. C, the National Parks 

 Association. Its objects include such 

 worthy subjects as: — encouraging the ex- 

 tension of the National Parks System, and 

 increasing "the popular study of the his- 

 tory, exploration, tradition, and folk-lore 

 of the National Parks and Monuments." 

 This Association also desires "to encourage 

 art with National Park subjects, and the 

 literature of National Parks, travel, wild- 

 life, and wilderness-living, and the inter- 

 pretation of scenery." 



The organization issues new bulletins 

 from time to time to be sent to the press 

 and for the enlightenment of the general 



public. One of the recent issues calls 

 attention to the Yucca House National 

 Monument, a prehistoric ruin a few miles 

 west of Mesa Verde National Park in 

 Colorado. Reference is made also to the 

 Scott's Bluff National Monument recently 

 established on the "old Oregon trail." 



This organization is appealing to the 

 public for financial support and its circular 

 contains a blank stating that the annual 

 membership fee is $3. The President is 

 Henry B. F. McFarland, of Washington, 

 D. C, and the Executive Secretary is 

 Robert Sterling Yard, Room 914, Union 

 Trust Building, Washington, D. C. This 

 is a most worth-while undertaking. 



A WEATHER-VANE BIRD FEEDING-DEVICE INVENTED BY W. L. D. BEDELL, NEW 

 ARK, N. J. SUPPORTED BY A PIVOT IT SWINGS WHEN THE WIND BLOWS THE 

 BROAD TAIL. 



SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE 



An organization with the above title, 

 with headquarters at 430 Library, Univer- 

 sity of California, Berkeley, has recently 

 come into active operation. The literature 

 states that the President is Franklin K. 

 Lane, and the Secretary-Treasurer, Robert 

 G. Sproul. 



The objects of the organization and its 

 work are set forth as follows: 



"The Save the Redwoods League was or- 

 ganized to assist in bringing about a better 

 and more general understanding of the 

 value of the primeval redwood forests of 

 America as natural objects of extraordi- 

 nary interest as well as of economic im- 

 portance, and for the purpose of bringing 

 into unity of action all interests concerned 

 with the movement to preserve such por- 

 tions of these forests as should be saved to 

 represent their fullest beauty and grandeur. 



"The plans of the League involve: 



