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sanctuaries in connection with all public shooting grounds. Special 

 emphasis was given to the need of non-political State game commis- 

 sioners, of trained staffs, long tenure, and broad administrative 

 powers ; that campaigns for the extermination of predatory animals 

 be discouraged except as authorized by State and Federal experts ; 

 that all sportsmen should cooperate with scientific institutions to 

 make the results of their hunting available for study and record ; 

 that the annual volume of game killing should be reduced by the 

 shortening of the open season, and by the reduction of bag limits 

 "by large amounts where necessary " ; that for a sound basis for the 

 administration of fisherv resources scientific investigations are 

 needed ; and that Federal legislation should prevent interstate ship- 

 ment of black bass. The menace of water pollution was stressed 

 from the standpoint of recreation and fish culture, as well as the 

 indiscriminate drainage of lands, without careful preliminarv study 

 of the situation in each case. 



Xot since President Roosevelt called the National Conservation 

 meetings at A\'ashington has public attention been directed to the 

 vital need of a sane policy toward these resources. Furthermore, 

 the social or welfare aspect of conservation was not so clearly ex- 

 pressed then as at this Conference. In those earlier conferences the 

 economic aim was dominant, but at this Conference the welfare 

 aspect was in the foreground. An important step has been taken 

 and it deserves the support of everyone. 



THE ROOSEVELT WILD LIFE STATION AND THE 

 CONFERENCE ON OUTDOOR RECREATION 



The Roosevelt Station was well represented by several of its mem- 

 bers at President Coolidge's Conference. The Executive Chairman 

 was the Honorable Theodore Roosevelt ; IMr. Chauncey J. Hamlin 

 was Chairman of the Committee to effect Permanent Organization, 

 and Dr. George Shiras, 3rd, was a member of the same Committee. 

 Dr. Frank M. Chapman was a member of the Committee on Birds. 

 These are all members of the Honorary Advisory Council of the 

 Wild Life Station. Dean Franklin Moon was a member of the Cen- 

 tral Resolutions Committee, and the Director of the Station was a 

 member of the Committee on Birds. Dr. Hugh P. Baker, former 

 Dean of the College during the period in which the Roosevelt Sta- 

 tion was established, was a member of the Committee on Sur\-ey 

 and Classification of Recreation Resources. The Director was the 

 official representative for the AMld Life Station, and also a delegate 



