38 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



In New York (1917) as we go to press, we believe that the Kasson 

 bill before the legislature, to kill female deer and gray-coated 

 fawns one year out of every five, will be soundly beaten in the 

 Senate, even if it passes the Assembly, as in all probability it 

 will. Senator Robinson's bill to license cats has passed the 

 Senate, 28 to 15, but may be defeated in the Assembly by ridi- 

 cule and frivolous amendments. If beaten this year, it will 

 succeed next year. 



In Missouri (1916), through the joint efforts of E. H. FORBUSH, 

 THE AUDUBON SOCIETY OF MASSACHUSETTS, MISS 

 HELOISE MEYER and the Permanent Fund, the field work of 

 DR. GEO. W. FIELD placed Missouri and Kansas permanently 

 in the "Breeding Zone" of the migratory birds, thereby knock- 

 ing the last prop from under the Missouri advocates of spring 

 shooting. 



Washington — By a narrow margin this state escapes a place in the 

 section headed "No Results of Real Importance." The saving 

 clauses lie in the elevation of Bauerman Ridge, of 22,000 acres 

 in Okanogan County, into a mountain sheep sanctuary, and in 

 the section which gives the State Game Commission the power 

 to close hunting seasons for upland game in localities wherein 

 the birds are not increasing, or are threatened with extinction. 

 In New York that power in the hands of the previous Conserva- 

 tion Commission was a dead letter, because the Commission 

 flatly refused to exercise it! Will it turn out that way in 

 Washington? 



Upland game birds were given a small sop of pseudo-pro- 

 tection by starting the killing season on August 1 instead of 

 July 15. Both dates are outrageous. The bag limit on deer 

 is reduced from 3 to 1, but the season opens August 1. 



Mr. L. H. Darwin, State Game Warden, says that "we be- 

 lieve our game laws are now the best of any state in the 

 Union" and "our fight will be to maintain them as they are." 



There is nothing like being easily pleased! 



AVe repeat: that with more funds at our disposal we could have 

 achieved more results. Our cash balance on January 1, 1917, was 

 $120! 



