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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary 



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

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



William Butcher, President 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer 

 Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member of it, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



$5 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 Si ,000 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Form of Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



A WARNING! 



There is great danger that, in the face 

 of the numerous calls on the time and 

 means of the people of this country to 

 help fight the battle of civilization, the 

 necessity of conserving our wild bird- 

 and animal-life may, in a measure, be 

 lost sight of. In fact, there are many 

 signs that this tendency has already 

 developed. Numerous bird- clubs and other 

 organizations of a similar character have 

 recently reported the suspension of 

 activities. 



It is perfectly natural that many good, 

 patriotic people who have theretofore 

 warmly supported bird-protective efforts 

 should now feel that all their available 

 resources must be given to the defense 

 of their country and to the alleviation of 

 human suffering. 



But if the friends of bird-protection are 

 to some extent temporarily suspending 

 their interest in the cause, it is most 

 certainly true that the enemies of wild 

 life are very much alive, and the time 

 has come when those of us more actively 

 engaged in wild-life conservation should 

 set the danger-signals flying from every 

 hill. Never since this Association began 

 its organized work, thirteen years ago in 

 January, have there been so many indica- 



tions of concerted effort to break down 

 bird- and game-restrictive measures as 

 right now. 



Let me cite a few exmaples: Gunners 

 in several of the eastern counties of Mass- 

 achussetts have combined, and, by the 

 assistance of certain officials in Wash- 

 ington whose names need not be called, 

 have begun a dangerous move to throw 

 open the spring shooting of wild fowl in 

 that territory. Exactly similar efforts 

 are being made by the coastwise gunners 

 of New Jersey. The very existence of 

 Klamath Lake and Malheur Lake as 

 Federal bird reservations is today hang- 

 ing in the balance. These contain the 

 most important breeding colonies of 

 Ducks and Geese in the northwestern part 

 of United States. 



Down in the mountains of northern 

 New Mexico is one of the largest breed- 

 ing territories of Ducks in the Southwest. 

 For weeks this office and the Game Pro- 

 tective Association of New Mexico have 

 been exerting the utmost efforts to pre- 

 vent this breeding area, known as Stink- 

 ing Lake, from being leased to a company 

 of eastern gunners for exploitation. 



The most important inland winter- 

 ing-place for Ducks in the eastern United 



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