MEDALS FOR DISTINGUISHED SERVICES 

 TO WILD LIFE 



Awarded by the Trustees of the Permanent Wild 

 Life Protection Fund. 



John M. Phillips. 



Pennsylvania State Game Commissioner, Pittsburgh. 



Awarded at the annual convention of the Pennsylvania 

 Wild Life League, Pittsburgh, Dec. 19, 1918. 



Awarded as a token of appreciation of fifteen years of 

 continuous, devoted, self-sacrificing and highly successful 

 services to the cause of wild life protection, covering Penn- 

 sylvania, the United States and eastern British Columbia. 

 The services rendered have been highly constructive, and 

 have gone far toward the lessening of excessive killing, the 

 creation of important sanctuaries, the increase of native 

 song birds, the destruction of vermin and the enforcement 

 of protective laws. 



To the initiative and the efforts of Mr. Phillips, the 

 sportsman, was chiefly due the creation, in 1907, of the 

 Elk River Game Preserve, of about 500 square miles in a 

 hunter's paradise in southeastern British Columbia. 



Commissioner Phillips has taken a very active part in 

 restoring the sport of deer-hunting to Pennsylvania, by 

 the creation of a great group of state game preserves, each 

 one surrounded by about 5,000 acres of state hunting- 

 grounds. 



