MEDALS FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICES 

 TO WILD LIFE 



AWARDED BY THE TRUSTEES OF THE PERMANENT WILD LIFE 

 PROTECTION FUND. 



TO 



Mrs. Russell Sage 



of New York City. 



Offered as a token of appreciation of the fact that for ten 

 years Mrs. Sage has exerted a powerful influence for the 

 protection and increase of the birds of America, and the 

 wild life of the continent at large. That influence has pro- 

 duced numerous practical results in bird and game sanc- 

 tuaries, in better laws, and in the educating of the American 

 people to a better appreciation of the value of wild life. 



TO 

 Aldo Leopold 



U. S. Forest Service, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

 Awarded for awakening New Mexico and Arizona to a 

 realizing sense of the dangers to the wild life of those states, 

 and for being largely instrumental in forming in those states 

 thirteen new organizations of sportsmen for the protection 

 and increase of wild life, pledged to activities in that cause. 

 He has taken an active and helpful part in national cam- 

 paigns, particularly in aid of the national game sanctuary 

 plan, and in the defense of the federal migratory bird law 

 and the treaty with Canada. 



TO 



Dr. T. C. Stephens 



Morningside College, Sioux City, Iowa. 

 Awarded for services in the campaign that was success- 

 fully waged in 1917 to save and bring back to Iowa the quail 



