198 WILD LIFE PROTECTION FUND 



Oct. 16. — The Supreme Court of the United States took up the test 

 case on the constitutionality of the federal migratory bird law, 

 the United States vs. Shauver. Briefs on the constitutionality of 

 the law were filed by the Department of Justice, Mr. E. Mar- 

 vin Underwood, Assistant Attorney General; for the New York 

 Zoological Society and the Boone and Crockett Club, by Charles 

 Stewart Davison; for the Camp-Fire Club of America by Edwin 

 W. Sanborn, Julius H. Seymour, William B. Greeley and Mar- 

 shall McLean, and for the American Game Protective Associa- 

 tion by W. S. Haskell. Briefs against the law were filed by E. 

 L. Westbrooke, and D. C. Beaman, of Denver. 



Nov. 4. — The proposed new Constitution for the state of New York, 

 containing a wild life clause very objectionable to many game 

 conservationists, and openly opposed by sportsmen throughout 

 the state, was beaten at the polls by about 450,000 majority. 



Nov. 17. — The Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund was completed 

 by the Campaigning Trustee up to the minimum limit of 

 $100,000. The work of raising this Fund required a little 

 more than two years. 



Dec. 10. — Bulletin No. 1 published by the Permanent Wild Life Pro- 

 tection Fund, giving a preliminary report on the field work of 

 the Campaigning Trustee throughout the states westward of 

 the Great Plains in behalf of the plan for game sanctuaries in 

 national forests. Twenty-three lectures and addresses were 

 given in 11 states. 



During the year 1915 the Dominion Parks Branch of the 

 Department of the Interior, under the direction of the Com- 

 missioner of Parks, Mr. J. B. Harkin, continued active meas- 

 ures for the protection of wild life. The most important step 

 taken was the enclosure, by Mr. Maxwell Graham, in charge of 

 the Animal Division of the Dominion Parks Branch, of a herd 

 of antelope near Foremost in southern Alberta, by the construc- 

 tion of a twelve-mile fence around a herd of 42 animals. The 

 area enclosed is over 5,000 acres in extent, and includes suit- 

 able summer and winter pasture. The herd now (1917) num- 

 bers over 50 animals. 



Steps were taken in the establishing of bird sanctuaries in 

 western Canada, where 12 areas in Saskatchewan and 11 in 

 Alberta were reserved from settlement with a view to creating 

 bird sanctuaries on those areas found most suitable for that 

 purpose. 



1916 



Jan. 1. — During the last three months of 1915, a great awakening 

 of interest in wild life conservation took place in New Mexico. 

 The movement began on October 14, and it was due to the in- 

 itiative of C. A. Ringland, District Forester, E. N. Kavanagh, 

 Acting District Forester, Aldo Leopold, of the Forest Service, 

 Prof. John D. Clark, University of New Mexico, and R. B. 

 Stamm and E. J. Strong of the Albuquerque Game Protective 

 Association. The membership of that Association was increased 

 from 35 to 135, and that of the Santa Fe Association was in- 

 creased to 2 4 5. Through the travels and missionary work of 



