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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



March, 1910 



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THE RELATION OF THE AUDU- 

 BON MOVEMENT TO THE 

 SPORTSMAN 



UV H. S. liOVVUlSU. 



THE true relation which Audubon so- 

 cieties bear to the sportsman of the 

 country (and within tlie term I mean 

 to include only true sportsmen), is very 

 nuicli misunderstood by a great many, 

 among whom are some of the sportsmen 

 themselves. While running the exhibit of 

 the National Association of Audubon So- 

 cieties at the Sportsmen's Show of the For- 

 est, Fish, and Game Society, of America, in 

 New York, recently, several visitors ex- 

 pressed surprise to the writer that the 

 Audubon societies should be thus joining 

 with sportsmen. They went away assured 

 that instead of there being any antagonism, 

 the most complete accord existed between 

 true sportsmen and the Audubon or- 

 ganization. To some sportsmen in- 

 quiring as to the exact intentions of 

 the Audubon societies, it was ex- 

 plained that they stood for the passage 

 and enforcement of such laws as would in- 

 sure the preservation of game, and for the 

 absolute protection of harmless and benefi- 

 cial non-game and insectivorous birds. In 

 no case did this explanation fail to elicit 

 prompt and hearty approval. 



The real sportsman is a true protector of 

 non-game birds. Their charm contributes 

 greatly to the pleasure of his outings, and 

 by them, in common with the rest of hu- 

 manity, he is benefited in a practical way. 

 in the matter of game, too, he stands for 

 ])reservation, not for extermination, and his 

 appreciation of actual conditions is far 

 more accurate than that of the sentimental 

 theorist, his sympathy more direct and per- 

 sonal. On the other hand, the cordial re- 

 lation of the Audubon societies toward the 

 sportsmen is shown by the results of their 

 work. In North Carolina the State Audu- 

 bon Society was in 1903 incorporated to 

 perform the functions of a fish and game 

 commission, and since that time has con- 

 tinued to serve the State with such general 

 satisfaction to sportsmen and citizens that 

 in February, 1907, the South Carolina 

 Audubon Society was incorporated along 

 the same lines. Alabama, a year since one 

 of the worst States in the Union as to game 

 protection, from which bobwhites were 

 annually shipped by wholesale, early in 

 1907 adopted a bird and game law drafted 

 by the most earnest and active Audubon 

 worker in the State, and indorsed by the 

 National Association, and the author of 

 this law, John H. Wallace, Jr., was made 

 Game Commissioner. As a result, the 

 State, from being one of the most back- 

 ward, has become one of the most progres- 

 sive game protective States, and words of 

 praise for the law and the Commissioner 

 are heard on all sides from the sportsmen 

 of the State. 



Tennessee has now a very good game 

 law, which the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies was influential in se- 

 curing, and Georgia, as a result of per- 

 sistent eflfort on the part of the same organ- 

 ization, has greatly improved in this re- 

 spect. In Texas, during the winter of 1906-7, 

 Mr. Chas. E. Brewster, game law expert 

 and ex-State Game Warden of Michi- 

 gan, was maintained at very considerable 

 expense by the National Association for the 

 purpose of educating the people and assist- 

 ing the able secretary of the Texas Audu- 

 bon Society, Capt. Davis, and the sports- 

 men of the State in securing the enactment 

 of good game laws and providing for their 

 enforcement. The result has been the cor- 

 rection of very serious abuses and the 



