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protection against this wrong to be secured at present either from the 

 state or national Government. 



Professor Ward: I cut out part of my paper. Perhaps it was not 

 entirely clear. Undoubtedly my method of expression was not always 

 such as to bring it positively before your minds. For two remarks 

 made by those who discussed the paper did not seem to me to meet the 

 conditions set forth in the paper. I believe in saving the small fish and 

 the large fish, and I am confident, if we are going to save any part of 

 our native fauna, we must save the birds or some of them ; and if we 

 save them we have got to let them eat. But if you preserve a stream 

 in its natural condition, not straight banked and clean bottomed like 

 a reservoir, but with the inequalities of bottom and the protection of 

 cover at the shore that you find in a natural lake or in a natural 

 stream, if you have such places as we have all seen in Colorado, where 

 the logs have drifted down and the sticks have jammed together until 

 no bird could get through there, and if you have places where the 

 rushes are so thick and the moss, if I can use that term, so abundant 

 that the big fish cannot get in there, then your little fish will get out 

 of the way of both the big fish and the birds, and the birds will have 

 some fun hunting and the big fish will have some fun hunting, and the 

 little fish will have some exercise getting out of the way. What we 

 need is to preserve a little territory in an absolutely natural condition, 

 not cleaned up and modernized, but just as it would be in nature and 

 suitable for the protection of the fish of every size. 



C. K. Cranston, Oregon: My chief object in coming here was to 

 learn. I understood the nature of the paper was the description of 

 the conditions which prevail all too largely and to the change which 

 has unfortunately come about in the condition of our streams from 

 the natural condition to the present. What I would like to hear is 

 suggestions of a practical nature whereby we may hope to improve 

 those conditions, and to come down to brass tacks, so to speak, as to 

 what we can do or suggest, to bring about a change of attitude on the 

 part of the average community towards the pollution of our streams 

 by the introduction into them of factory waste ; and more particu- 

 larly and specifically the correction of the trouble, that is almost 

 universal, of the running of town and municipal sewage into water 

 courses. There is the meat of the whole proposition, to get rid of 

 that ; and if there can be any suggestions made that will help me in 

 the campaign that I am trying to institute in my state to correct that 

 condition, I want to hear them. 



President: I think Judge Beaman's suggestion last week was a 

 grand one. He said we had the law already ; what we need is its 

 enforcement. 



Mr. Cranston : We have law enough, but it is necessary to get 

 public sentiment to support the enforcement of the law. 



President: I understand from Judge Beaman that any citizen can 

 take this matter up by going to the attorney-general of the state and 

 having a suit instituted. I did not know that until yesterday. 



