Editorials. 



National Wild In the history of this country no single year has 



Life Conservation, seen so much accomplished in the form of legis- 

 lation to protect and conserve what remains to 

 us of our wild life resources. The most notable achievement is the 

 passage, by the last Congress, of the McLean bill, which authorizes the 

 National Government, through the Department of Agriculture, to take 

 full charge of the safety of our migratory wild birds, from ducks and 

 geese down to the tiniest insect eaters, the warblers and humming 

 birds. It will now be possible for the strong arm of the Federal Gov- 

 ernment to prevent the appalHng slaughter of song birds for food which 

 has been such a disgraceful annual feature of certain kinds of hunting 

 in some of the Southern States. 



Another great step forward is contemplated in the new tariff bill of 

 the present Congress. One of its clauses provides for the total sup- 

 pression of all importations of wild birds' plumage (except ostrich 

 plumes) for millinery purposes. This measure has called forth strong 

 advocacy all over the country, and we hope that no emasculating 

 amendments of any kind will be permitted. The so-called "feather 

 trade," of course, is fighting the measure frantically. 



Results of the In California most gratifying results have at- 



California Campaign, tended the campaign for better legislation con- 

 ducted by the California Associated Societies 

 for the Conservation of Wild Life. The following are some of the re- 

 sults : Civil service for fish and game wardens ; shipments of protected 

 wild game prohibited, together with the sale of wild ducks (except dur- 

 ing November) ; provision for the propagation of wild game in cap- 

 tivity; bag limit on ducks and quail fifteen a day, and thirty a week; 

 possession of plumage of wild birds for any purpose prohibited ; aliens 

 prohibited from hunting and bearing firearms. The rallidae, limicolae, 

 band-tailed pigeon, wood duck, ibis, and sea otter are afforded absolute 

 protection. As soon as the Governor affixes his signature to these 

 measures California will have taken a long step toward the preservation 

 of her splendid wild life resources. 



Director McAdie Members of the Sierra Club will be interested to 

 Leaves the Coast, learn that Director Alexander G. McAdie has 

 accepted the Professorship of Meteorology at 

 Harvard, and the Directorship of the Meteorological Observatory at 

 Blue Hill, Mass., where so much work in exploring the upper air 

 has been done in the past few years. While we deeply regret his going, 

 the best wishes of the Club follow him into his new field of labor. 



