SECOND BIENNIAL STATEMENT 117 



representing the Oklahoma Academy of Sciences, strongly 

 advocated a five-year close season on wild turkey, prairie 

 chicken, otter and beaver, and secured those results. 



Senator J. Elmer Thomas, Chairman of the Senate Com- 

 mittee on Appropriations, is responsible for the law which 

 now enacts in the state of Oklahoma the provisions of the 

 United States tariff law to prevent the importation, posses- 

 sion for sale and sale of wild birds' plumage for commercial 

 purposes. 



The Daily Oklahoman newspaper, of Oklahoma City, con- 

 stantly championed the cause of better wild life laws for 

 the state of Oklahoma, in which Sumner T. Bisbee exerted 

 an important editorial influence. 



During the past four years the Permanent Wild Life Pro- 

 tection Fund has been in close touch with the situation in 

 Oklahoma. While sending forth exhortations for the im- 

 provement of conditions that there existed during the past 

 four years, we have also recorded such criticisms as the 

 status of wild life in that state seemed to require. 



