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of personal gain, as found in recreative shooting and pounds of wild 

 meat. Concerted action with these to effect protective measures, such 

 as restocking of depleted areas, cover planting, winter feeding, long 

 closed seasons, will primarily accrue to the sportsmen's benefit, as did 

 the closed season on spring shooting. 



Here is a splendid opportunity for bird lovers and sportsmen to 

 get together in a common cause that will benefit them mutually. But 

 would it be fair to ask the sportsmen to forego their pleasures without 

 compensating them in measure greater than found in the protection of 

 the present game laws? Should not the bird lover, individually or col- 

 lectively, lend his efforts and combine forces with the sportsmen in an 

 active and constructive program that will safeguard Bob-white from its 

 natural enemies, by providing for it much needed natural cover? Sup- 

 pressio veri suggestio valsi. 



Plan to Save the Ducks 



Audubon Society Would Make Bird Sanctuary of the 

 Proposed Gulf Coast Shooting Club 



From National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York. 



NEW YORK, Nov. 27th. — Out of the storm of protest against 

 the plan of E. A. Mcllhenny and his associates to establish a 

 gigantic hunting club in the midst of the Louisiana Wild Life 

 Sanctuaries there has evolved a definite and constructive proposition 

 for saving the wild fowl of that region from the guns of the hunters and 

 at the same time protecting against loss those who invested in the Louisi- 

 ana Gulf Coast Club. 



This plan is brought forward by T. Gilbert Pearson, President of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, who sees the possibilities 

 for establishing one vast, solid chain of sanctuaries in the great territory 

 of the Louisiana Coast where wild fowl winter. He dreams of a bird 

 reservation extending from Cote Blanche Bay westward to the Mer- 

 mentau River, a territory about 80 miles in length and from 10 to 15 

 miles in width. 



"This plan concerning which I have been in correspondence with 

 Mr. Mcllhenny for some weeks," said Mr. Pearson today, "contemplates 

 the purchase of the 100,000 acre tract on which the Club has option, 

 and adding it to the adjoining wild life sanctuaries. 



"It was through Mr. Mcllhenny's efforts originally that Mrs. 

 Russell Sage and the Rockefeller Foundation purchased as bird reserva- 

 tions great territories in that region and Mr. Mcllhenny states that he 

 was very anxious to place the remaining territory in sanctuary, but saw 



