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SUMMER SCHOOL WORK AT TAHOE 



The Bureau of Education, Publicity and 

 Research of the California Fish and Game 

 Commission has outlined an attractive 

 course in wild life study to be given the 

 coming summer at Tahoe, Calif. 



In the announcement just issued the 

 statement is made: "Everyone wants to 

 recognize the plants and wild things en- 

 countered on the summer vacation. There 

 is no better way of developing this ability 

 than to accompany one who knows wild 

 life. A competent instructor will take 

 groups of not more than twenty on field 

 excursions where first-hand knowledge of 

 living things will be obtained. Special 

 attention will be given the identification of 

 birds by call, song, color, and habits. The 

 motto of these classes will be: 'Learn to 

 read a roadside as one reads a book.' 



Knowledge of wild life insures better con- 

 servation of it. Special excursions for 

 children." 



Evening illustrated lectures are scheduled 

 for the following subjects: 'Common Song- 

 Birds of the High Sierras,' 'The Game- 

 Birds of California,' 'Sierran Mammals,' 

 'Wild .\nimal Life in California,' 'Forest 

 Trees of the Sierras,' 'The Fish and Fish- 

 cries of California,' and 'Wild Flowers of 

 the Sierras.' 



One can hardly imagine a more beautiful 

 place in the West to study wild life than 

 at Tahoe, and anyone who can take ad- 

 vantage of the opportunity offered above 

 may be sure of spending his vacation in 

 an interesting and most worth-while man- 

 ner, under the inspiring leadership of Mr. 

 Harold Child Brvant and his associates. 



IOWA CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION 



The following is contributed by George 

 Bennett, Field Representative of the Iowa 

 Conservation Association. 



"The purpose and work of our organiza- 

 tion are the protection and preservation of 

 the wild life of the state, and the founding 

 of city, country, state and national parks. 

 Its membership has been largely increased 

 within the last two years, with a future out- 

 look that is bright. 



"This .\ssociation is actively engaged in 

 promoting the founding of a national park 

 in the northeastern section of Iowa, where 

 there is a magnificent area of wood and 

 water, rock ;ind flell — scenery of the first 

 order. Here the Mississippi flows through 

 appealing natural beauty, whether it be 

 Wisconsin on the east or Iowa on the west, 

 and the time cannot be far away when the 

 bill, already in Congress, will be favorably 

 acted upon, for the setting apart for all time 

 of this great historic and nature arena, for 

 the benefit of the entire citizenship of the 

 United States. 



"In connection with such enterprise, a 

 movement is on foot to place on Pike's 

 Peak, the highest point and on the Iowa 

 side, a memorial of that splendid piece of 

 wild life remedial legislation, the Migratory 

 Bird Treaty between the United States 

 and Canada. 



"Among the many reasons for such a 

 movement, two specific ones make their 

 appeal. One is that the far-famed Missis- 

 sippi Valley is the grand central highway 

 of great numbers of birds as they journey 

 from one clime to another. Again, when 

 this national park is established, it will 

 draw on a far larger population than any 

 such park in the distant West, and, stand- 

 ing as it will for the redemption of our bird- 

 life, will tell its story to an ever-increasing 

 multitude that sees on that majestic ele- 

 vation, where in 1805 Zebulon Pike planted 

 the first -American flag that floated to the 

 breeze in the Northwest, a great contri- 

 bution to a greater cause." 



