April, 1922 
FOREST AND STREAM 
161 
A bird refuge may be established in a small way on 
a farm or through a cooperative bird preserve. In the 
latter case, the plan has proved popular and successful 
as a means of establishing colonies of game birds, such 
as pheasants. 
In creating a useful bird refuge, the first step is to 
insure adequate protection against all bird enemies ; the 
second, to see that plenty of nesting sites suited to the 
needs of the various birds arc available ; and the tliird, 
to improve food and water supplies if necessary. Bird 
refuges also may be established along roadways and 
right-of-ways, with particularly attractive and beneficial 
results. 
GENEROUS GIFT TO AUDUBON SOCIETY 
I T will be a source of gratification to all friends of 
wild life and to Forest and Stream readers certainly, 
to learn that the Audubon Society, whose establish- 
ment was made possible by their steady cooperation and 
support, received on March 1st a donation of $200,000, 
Avhich brings the permanent endowment fund of the 
society up to $675,000. 
This gift has been made with the distinct understand- 
ing that the name of the donor l)e withheld ; another 
stipulation is that the money should be held and known 
as the “Permanent Fund of 1922.” Only the interest is 
to be used from time to time for current expenses and 
expended for the education of the general public, the 
I actual protection and perpetuation of such forms of 
! Avild life on suitable breeding and other reservations and 
I for protecting and maintaining such forms of wild life 
in all parts of the Western Idemisphere. 
Under the able and unostentatious devotion of Mr. T. 
Gilbert Pearson, The Audubon Society has become the 
most important body of its kind in the Avorld. It has es- 
I: tablished and is protecting 82 nesting reservations in 
A'arious sections of the country and has organized 
I 1,700,000 children into Junior Clubs and is truly making 
I this a better Avorld in Avhich to li\'e. 
! 
' NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION 
I N order to obtain the full benefits of individual mem- 
bership in the National Rifle Association during 1922, 
members should reaffiliate promptly. 
The coming months will be a banner period of marks- 
manship activity. The big programs for the 1922 sea- 
son are already under way, and there are many other 
developments in store. 
IndiA’idual membership in the N. R. A. is becoming 
more important to the shooter all the time. When a 
I man becomes an individual member, it means primarily 
j that he is allying himself Avith, and giving his support 
e to, the only organization in existence that looks after 
the interests of the American rifleman through bad 
time^ as well as good, encourages beneficent legislation, 
1 1 opposes unfriendly laws and is instrumental in obtain- 
I ing those purchase and issue privileges, together Avith 
, the establishment of goA'ernment ranges, without which 
I the rifleman and his club would be sadly handicapped in 
the enjoyment of his chosen recreation. 
These broad activities of the N. R. A. are good and 
sufficient reasons Avhy every rifleman Avorthy of the 
name should enroll himself Avith the parent organiza- 
j tion. There is, however, another phase Avhich strikes di- 
I rectly at the self-interest of the shooter. Any rifleman 
I can obtain a twenty-fold return for his affiliation fee in 
I the numerous and signal actual benefits which accrue 
from such membership, amolig which, in passing, may 
be listed at this time the privilege of parlicii)ation in the 
individual indoor rifle and jnstol matches, the coming 
small-bore outdoor matches and other competitions and 
the opportunity to take advantage of special prices on 
government and commercial arms and ammunition. 
These benefits alone, to the shooter who actively follows 
the game, represent an annual saving of many times the 
amount involved in an individual membership. 
The coming year is destined to see more than a few 
developments of direct interest to the shooter, in spite 
of the fact that during the past year strides Avere taken 
in the production of rifles and ammunition Avhich at the 
time apparently seemed the ultimate in such lines of 
endeavor for a considerable period. 
By all tokens — the impersonal desire to take an active 
part in the great work the X. R. A. is accom])lishing and 
the A'ery human desire to benefit one's self — CA’ery rifle- 
man should affiliate promptly. Full j)articulars may be 
had by addressing Brig. Gen. Fred. II. Phillips, Wood- 
Avard Building, Washington, D. C. 
YELLOWSTONE PARK’S JUBILEE 
F ifty years ago — on March 1st, 1872, to be exact — 
President Ulysses S. Grant signed the act Avhich es- 
tablished the YelloAvstone National Park ‘‘for the 
benefit and enjoyment of the people.” 
In those days, a national park Avas a new thing and 
not at all understood as these parks have been by the 
last generation. To be sure, the Plot Springs National 
Park — knoAvn as the Hot Springs Reservation — had 
been established in 1832; but the YclloAvstone Avas the 
first, as it is still the largest, of our national parks. 
It was a long time before the jAeople's rej)resentatives 
in Congress kncAv just Avhat to do Avith this novel j)OS- 
session. I'or ten or a dozen A'ears they did nothing. 
The region Avas a long Avay off ; and even after the build- 
ing of the Northern Pacific Railroad, it Avas not easily 
reached except by people accustomed to traveling in the 
mountains. 
What made the Yellowstone Park best knoAvn to the 
public Avas the effort, made in '82 and '83, to get pos- 
session of some special attractions of the j)ark and to 
use them for private profit. It took some little time, 
forty years ago, to make people understand just Avhat 
that meant ; but, chiefly through the efforts of P'orest 
.\.\n Stre.aaf, it Avas at last made clear to the ])ublic that 
this AA'as an effort to rob them of their pro|)erty. and 
the schemes to make money out of the ])ark Avere killed. 
Since that time, there haA'e been other similar ])rojccts, 
the last of Avhich AAerc those fathered 1 )a' Congressman 
Smith on the soutliAA Cst and Senator \\ alsh tOAA'ard the 
north. I he actiA'ities of the friends of the jAark seem to 
haA'e checked these efforts to commercialize Yellow- 
stone Park, and all such efforts AA'ill hereafter fail, aac 
believe. 
It is understood that an effort is to be made to cele- 
brate in some AA’ay the semi-centennial anniA'crsary of 
the setting aside of the YelloAvstone Park; but Avhat 
these plans are has not been announced. .\s the date 
comes to be remembered, hoAvever, it is probable that 
there AA'ill be an unusual rush of travel to the park; and 
it IS said that, in anticipation of this rush, efforts are 
being made to accommodate the large croAvd expected 
there. 
It is gratifying to note, day by day and Aveek by 
week, a continually increasing interest felt bv the inibli'c 
in this splendid possession of theirs. It is a noble 
heritage of the nation. 
