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reported to have stated he is going to 

 introduce a bill to take this entire territory 

 out of the Park, and should he succeed in 

 this undertaking, it would, of course, then 

 be easy to use the waters. 



The following statement shows the 

 income and expenditures of the Associa- 

 tion's fund for National Parks Defense 

 from December 9, 1920 to February 28. 

 1921. 



Income fund for national parks defense 



Contributions $5,977 5° 



Expenses^ 



Printing and mailing 25,000 Circulars $1,503 53 



Postage on Circulars and Correspondence 501 50 



Expenses of Agent in Washington 82 70 



Slides illustrating National Parks no 10 



Contribution to National Parks Association 690 00 



Contribution to American Civic Association 250 00 



Miscellaneous 3 52 3,141 35 



Balance unexpended, March i, 1921 $2,836 15 



FEDERAL GAME LEGISLATION 



Federal legislation in reference to birds 

 and game has of late been confined almost 

 entirely to the subject of appropriations 

 for enforcing the existing laws. 



The President of this Association, in 

 company with representatives of various 

 other organizations interested in wild life 

 protection, appeared before the Appro- 

 priations Committee of Congress and asked 

 for $10,000 with which to protect the Mt. 

 McKinley National Park in Alaska. This 

 is a territory as large as the Yellowstone 

 Park and although it contains an abun- 

 dance of game animals, it does not have one 

 warden to protect it. A railroad from the 

 coast has been pushed up into the Mt. 

 McKinley country and its completion next 

 summer will mean that numbers of big- 

 game hunters will visit the territory, hence 

 the urgency for immediate action in the way 

 of providing warden service. The Com- 

 mittee gave kindly attention to the pro- 

 position and in the end provided $8,000 

 for the purpose. 



The President of the Association and 

 Mr. Holland of the American Game Pro- 

 tective Association appeared before one of 

 the subcommittees and urged that the 

 request of the Secretary of Agriculture for 

 $200,000 to enforce the provisions of the 



Federal Migratory Bird Treaty Act should 

 be granted. The Committee exhibited 

 a charming indifference to the arguments 

 of the speakers and in the end granted the 

 same appropriation as last year — about 

 $145,000. 



Scattered throughout Alaska are a few 

 wardens that work under the direction of 

 the Government. For years this depart- 

 ment has been kept up by an annual 

 appropriation of $25,000. The House 

 Appropriations Committee provided that 

 sum for the present year, but the Senate 

 cut away the entire appropriation. 



The President of the Association hap- 

 pened to be in Washington at the time 

 and at once visited various members of 

 the Conference Committee of the two 

 Houses of Congress to which the bill 

 would be referred and strongly urged that 

 the appropriation be retained. He also 

 wired to New York for further help and 

 representatives of the American Game 

 Protective Association and the Camp- 

 Fire Club immediately appeared in Wash- 

 ington on the same mission. It is pleas- 

 ant to report that in the end the ap- 

 propriation was put back so that we 

 should still have some game protection in 

 Alaska. 



