352 Bird -Lore 



We are now making up a series of motion-picture reels to be used by the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies for educational purposes. The plan 

 is to make up a film library from the best negatives which we have secured 

 during the past eight years, showing interesting traits in the lives of wild birds 

 and animals, illustrating various wild-fowl reservations and all the phases of 

 Audubon work. When completed, this will make a series of 20,000 or 30,000 

 feet of choice film, or a motion-picture library that can be used for exhibition 

 purposes. 



Malheur Lake Reservation, our greatest wild-fowl nursery in the West, is 

 likely to be saved from the scheme of promoters who have been trying to drain 



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LAKE MERRITT, OAKLAND, ( ALIFoRM A A SUCCESSFUL WILD FOWL RETREAT 



IN THE MIDST OF THE CITY 



Photographed by William L. and Irene Finley 



or dry up the lake. After the reservation was created by special proclamation 

 of Theodore Roosevelt, on August 18, 1908, there arose a conflict of interest 

 in the land and water between the state of Oregon and the Federal Government. 

 An effort was made last year to settle this matter by popular vote of the 

 citizens of Oregon whereby the state relinquished its rights on ]\Ialheur Lake, 

 but this failed. However, such interest has been aroused in the Reservation 

 that the Solicitor's Office of the Department of Agriculture has made a thorough 

 investigation during the past year, and the diversion of the water from Malheur 

 Lake and the rights and title of the United States to the land within the 

 meander line of the Reservation have been found to be substantial. It is 

 likely that action in the Federal court will be taken shortly to prevent further 

 drying up of Malheur Lake and the consequent destruction of its great bird 

 colonies. 



Eternal vigilance is the price that lovers of the out-of-doors have to pay to 

 prev^ent the continued extermination of wild birds and animals. During the 



