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Bird- Lore 



Mr. Gregg is a Life Member of the Na- 

 tional Association of Audubon Societies and 

 greatly interested in all the Association's 

 activities for the protection of wild birds and 

 animals. With a view of receiving contir- 

 mation of the information that had come to 

 him, the following telegram, on August 26, 

 was forwarded to Governor Carey, president 

 of the State Game Commission of Wyoming. 



National Association of Audubon Societies 

 for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals 

 is alarmed at report that you arc granting 

 permission to kill one hundred buck antelope. 

 Please wire facts, 1074 Proadway, New York. 



(Signed) T. Gii.bkkt Pkarsox, President. 



If licenses had already been issued to kill 

 seventy-five antelope it would probably have 

 been too late to save the slaughter of this 

 many animals, but it might be possible to 

 induce the authorities not to issue the re- 

 maining twenty-five licenses. 

 His reply received ne.xt day was as follows: 

 No licenses have been granted for the 

 killing of buck anteloi)e. Matter will be con- 

 sidered by Game Commission within a few 

 days. (Signed) Rubekt D. Carey, Governor. 



It was a great joy to find that no permits 

 whatever had thus far been granted. There 

 was, therefore, a possibility of accomplishing 

 much by speedy action. Tbe Association 

 immediately filed a formal protest in the 

 following message: 



Governor Robert D. Carey, 



Cheyenne, Wyoming. 



On behalf of .\udubon Societies of the 

 United Slates I respectfully urge you refrain 

 from granting permits to kill one hundred 

 antelope. 



(Signed) T. Gii.hkrt Pearson, President. 



.\l the same time every efTort was made 

 from our New York office to get in touch 

 with ofikials of various national organiza- 

 tions interested in the protection of wild life. 

 The Conser\'ation Committee of the Camp- 

 Fire Club of America was notified, as was 

 also J. Horace McFarland, President of the 

 .American Ci%ic Association. To Edmund 

 Seymour, President of the American Hison 

 Society, the matter was explained o\er the 

 tele])h()ne. He immediately sent a strong 

 telegram of protest. A wire was sent to 

 Mr. Gregg informing liiiu that Dr. Grinnell, 



of the Poone and Crocket Club, was in 

 Montana, and Mr. Gregg reached him. Mr. 

 Holland, \'ice-President of the American 

 Game Protective Association was advised 

 and telegraphed his objections. A telegram 

 was sent to Madison Grant, Secretary of the 

 New York Zoological Society, who was at 

 that time in Victoria, British Columbia. 

 Mr. Grant wired a ven,' strong protest to 

 Governor Carej' against the killing of these 

 animals. We also explained the situation 

 by wire to the Chicago office of the Asso- 

 ciated Press, with the result that the general 

 [)ub]ic in the West was notified as to what 

 was going on. 



In conclusion it need only be added that 

 on the morning of September 7, 1921, the 

 following message was recei\ed from Mr. 

 Gregg. 



Yellowstone Park, Wyoming. 

 T. Gilbert Pearson, 



President, Audubon Society, 

 1974 Broadway, New York. 



Lixingston paper prints a despatch from 

 Cheyenne that, following protests from sev- 

 eral national game protection societies, the 

 Wyoming Game Commission decided not to 

 issue permits to hunters to kill one hundred 

 antelope and reducing moose ])ermits to 

 fift>-. You have done fine work with happ' 

 and prompt results. Dan Beard who is here 

 joins me in congratulations. 



(Signed) William C. Gregg. 



Such action as the above is taken very 

 frequently by the Home Ofhce of the Na- 

 tional .Association and this has been the 

 custom for many years. Often ver>' little is 

 said of these things in a public way, for it is 

 not always wise to advertise the fact that a 

 large series of protests really are stimulated 

 from one source. Howe\'er, it has been de- 

 cided to make some mention of this case in 

 order that our membership may know some- 

 tliing of tlie methods the .Association em- 

 [)li)ys in its fight for the preser\-ation of 

 .America's wild life. It also indicates the 

 ver>' great advantage of having a large 

 active membership, and shows how one 

 member may help the cause. But for Mr. 

 Cregg's timely warning, it is altogether pos- 

 sible that jiermits would have been issued in 

 Wyoming to kill as many as one hundred bull 

 moose and the same number of tiie rapidly 

 disappearing antelope. 



