BIENNIAL SUMMARY OF OUR CAMPAIGNS 

 AND THEIR RESULTS 



IN ATTEMPTING to compile a summary of the past two 

 years of our activities in wild life protection work, we 

 find a satisfactory proportion of practical results. Con- 

 sidering all things, the cause of the birds has fared remark- 

 ably well. The interests of the mammals have not fared 

 so well, and unless some important new victories are won 

 for them in the near future, certain species are doomed, in 

 many localities, to go down and out. 



The trend of education and of public sympathy has ranged 

 still farther toward strong and effective wild life protection. 

 Never before has the public mind been so sympathetic and 

 so responsive toward wild life conservation as now; but 

 because of our inability to reach them effectively, the masses 

 are ignorant and apathetic. Meanwhile, the forces of de- 

 struction are as wide awake and determined as ever. 



The record of Congress yet remains perfect. Not one wild 

 life protection cause has been voted down! 



Several states that recently have been in the benighted 

 class have seriously started in to reform, and in a few oth- 

 ers, like Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Iowa, New Mexico 

 and Washington, sweeping changes for the better have been 

 wrought. 



It is to be noted with profound regret that the automobile, 

 as a new and deadly factor in the destruction of wild life, 

 has come to stay, everywhere. Because of it, many species 

 of non-migratory game birds are much nearer to local ex- 

 termination than they were even two years ago. The report 

 of Miss Belle Williams on the "Decrease of Birds in South 

 Carolina" is an object lesson so clear and convincing that 



