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ing trespassers who were found hunting and fishing. Mean- 

 while, in other respects Mt. Ranier Park has been a going con- 

 cern, and the public could only wonder why the game and fish 

 were not fully protected by the national government on the 

 same basis that obtains in other national forests. 



Aug. 15. — So far as we are aware, the first step for the permanent 

 preservation of the pinnated grouse in a preserve was made in 

 Minnesota by the Polk County Game Protective Association, 

 which established in the vicinity of Crookston, the best chicken 

 country of Polk county, a prairie chicken sanctuary. It con- 

 sists of four townships lying west and southwest of the city of 

 Crookston, and its area is six miles wide by 24 miles long. It 

 is the belief of the Crookston sportsmen that a fair and thor- 

 ough trial should be made of the sanctuary plan before closing 

 shooting for a period of years. 



August 16. — The migratory bird treaty with Canada was signed at 

 the State Department, Washington, by Secretary Lansing and 

 the British Ambassador, Sir Cecil Arthur Spring-Rice. 



August 21. — The new "Regulations for the Protection of Migratory 

 Birds," for 1916-17, were published by the Department of 

 Agriculture. 



August 21. — The bird treaty was sent to the Senate by the Presi- 

 dent, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. 



August 2 3. — The Committee on Foreign Relations favorably re- 

 ported the treaty to the Senate, in charge of Senator James A. 

 O'Gorman, of New York. 



August 2 8. — The Conservation Commission of Canada, (James 

 White, Deputy Head, Ottawa,) issued a Report on "The Con- 

 servation of Fish, Birds and Game in Canada." 8vo, 218 

 pages, ill. Cloth. Price 5 cents. 



August 2 9. — The Senate in executive session ratified the treaty by a 

 two-thirds vote, the way to which had been carefully prepared 

 by Senator George P. McLean, of Connecticut. Senator Geo. 

 P. McLean's resolution providing for the negotiating of that 

 treaty was passed by the Senate on July 7, 1913; and thus it 

 appears that the treaty has been pending for more than three 

 years. 



September 12. — The Forestry Branch, Department of the Interior, 

 Canada, (Ottawa), published a Report on "Game Preservation 

 in the Rocky Mountains Forest Reserve," by W. H. Millar. 

 69 pp., ill. and map. It proposes the creation of three large 

 game preserves. 



September 13. — An important and startling report on "The Decrease 

 of Birds in South Carolina," by Miss Belle Williams, Secretary 

 of the South Carolina Audubon Society, was published by the 

 University of S. C, Columbia. 8vo., 69 pp., (See at end of 

 this volume) . 



