dje Audubon Societies 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by WILLIAM DUTCHER 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies. 141 Broadway, New York City 



National Conservation Commission 



One of the most important mcctinf^s 

 ever held in this country was the one 

 called by President Roosevelt last spring;, 

 when he invited the governors of the sev- 

 eral states to meet in Washington to con- 

 sider the l)est methods of conserving the 

 natural resources of the country. 



The outgrowth of the meeting was the 

 formation of the National Conservation 

 Commission, under the leadership of Mr. 

 Gifford Pinchot, Chief l-"orester of the 

 United States. 



Recently Mr. I'inchot asked tlie Na- 

 tional Association to appoint a committee 

 of five of its mcmljers to take cliarge of 

 wild l)ird and animal protection in the 

 United States as a sub-committee to co- 

 operate with the Commission. 



The Committee is as follows: ICdward 

 Howe Forbush, Chairman; Dr. Theodore 

 S. Palmer, Frank Chapman, \Villiam 

 Dutcher, T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



The t:rst work proposed by the sub- 

 committee will be to prepare a report blanj; 

 to send broadcast throughout the United 

 States, in order to get an a])i)roximali' 

 census of the birds of the country, espei i- 

 ally game birds, and a second line of in- 

 vestigation will be to discover liie number 

 of game birds and animals l<illcd eai li 

 year ))\' sportsmen. 



When the Coniinittce is pi-cpaicd to 

 make a prt'liniiiiarx' report on liicse two 

 subjects, tiie matter of birfl and game 

 protection can be jdac ed upon a much 

 more scientific basis than the i)resent 

 knowledge of the subjei t peiiuits. 



The Committee will weliome the aid 

 of every member of the Association, as 

 well as every reader of Uird-Loue, all 

 the sportsmen of the United States, and 



all others intcrestecl in wild birds and 

 animals. 



State Audubon Reports 



South C.xkolin.a. — The .Vudubon So- 

 ciety, of South Carolina, was chartered by 

 the General .Assembly, 1907. Organized 

 with election of the following officers: 

 B. F. Taylor, Columbia, S. C, president; 

 James Henry Rice, Jr., Spartanburg, 

 secretary, and a full board of directors. 

 The treasurer, A. R. Heyward, Jr., Colum- 

 bia, was appointed by the governor. 



Work began on April 23, when the sec- 

 retary went on the road to secure mem- 

 bers and to work up interest among the 

 people. The year IQ07 closed with fairly 

 satisfactorv results, l)ut no action was 

 taken on the society's bills, introduced 

 into the General Assembly which con- 

 vened in January. 



The society had no means of raising 

 revenue except from membership fees, 

 save a small amount, about two thousand 

 dollars, that was realized from a non- 

 resident license. 



During the year, however, the work has 

 been pushed with vigor and determination, 

 th ■ secretary having spent the entire year 

 in the field. One hundred and si.x wardens 

 art' now working, most of them doing satis- 

 factory work. 



The secretary has delivered lectures 

 in I'X'erv ([uarter of tlie state, and has 

 aroused acute interest in the subject of 

 bird and game protection. He is also an 

 active warden, and has made man)- arrests 

 and secured a number of convictions. 



At the same time President Taylor, who 

 is a business man, with headquarters at 

 Columbia, devoted a great deal of his 

 time to spreading the propaganda of bird 



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