Monthly Bulletin 7 



THE ROOSEVELT WILD LIFE FOREST EXPERIMENT STATION 



The first forest biological station devoted exclusively to the study of 

 every phase of forest wild life in America and probably in the world has 

 recently been established at the New York State College of Forestry, at 

 Syracuse University. This station has been very appropriately named 

 The Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station as a memorial to that 

 great lover of all wild life, Theodore Roosevelt. 



The New York State Legislature defined the functions of the station as 

 follows: 



To establish and conduct an experimental station to be known as 

 "Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station" in which there shall be 

 maintained records of the results of the experiments and investigations 

 made and research work accomplished; also a library of words, publications, 

 papers and data having to do with wild life together with means for prac- 

 tical illustration and demonstration, which library shall, at all reasonable 

 hours, be open to the public. 



Further duties of the station are to make "investigations, experiments 

 and research in relation to the habits, life histories, methods of propaga- 

 tion and management of fish, birds, game and food and fur-bearing ani- 

 mals and forest wild life." 



FLAMINGOES SAVED FROM EXTINCTION 

 H. E. W. Grant, colonial governor of the Bahamas, has recently an- 

 nounced that as the result of an American expedition to one of the remote 

 and seldom visited islands of the group the flamingo, known as one of 

 the world's most beautiful birds, will receive complete protection. The 

 expedition, sent out by the Miami Aquarium Association, and accompan- 

 ied by Louis A. Fuertes, the nature artist and bird expert, discovered that 

 a large colony of the flamingoes was being rapidly killed off by sponge 

 fishermen, who used them for food. Dr. Frank M. Chapman, who visited 

 the island in 1901, estimated that there were then about 20,000 of the gor- 

 geous red and black birds, but their number has now been reduced by fully 

 two-thirds. 



MORE GAME PROTECTION NEEDED 



Two well-know,n Americans have recently called attention to the 

 alarming increase in hunting of game birds and animals in the United 

 States and Alaska within the last few years. Both agree that unless some- 

 thing is done about the matter at once it will not be long before there 

 is no game left to shoot in this country. Dr. William T. Hornaday, of 

 the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund, has written a pamphlet en- 

 titled, "The End of Game Sport in America? Will Americans See Their 

 Sport Exterminated?" The other sportsman who has appealed to the 

 public is Emerson Hough. 



