July, 1920 
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was organized with George Shiras, 3d, President; 
Frank M. Chapman, Vice President; J. T. Nichols, 
Secretary; E. R. Sanborn, Treasurer. Additional 
Directors are Clinton G. Abbott, Carl E. Akeley, 
Arthur A. Allen, Ernest Harold Baynes. 
It is proposed that Membership in the League 
stand for achievement in wild life photography and 
that all those genuinely interested in the practice 
and the promotion of the subject may have oppor- 
tunity to join as Associates. 
SAVE THE REDWOODS 
Y" 1 REAT interest has long been felt in the so-called 
^ big trees of California. Most visitors to the 
Yosemite Park have seen the grove near there, and 
further south there are forests of these trees which 
in part have been included in one or two national 
parks. They are thought to be the oldest living 
things in the world. 
The smaller redwoods, Sequoia sem^ervirens, have 
received less attention. They are more numerous 
than the big trees and exist at many points along the 
coast range of California, in forests which are ex- 
tensive from north to south, but not very wide from 
east to west. 
The wood of these splendid straight tall trees is 
valuable and since the lumbermen got in among them 
they have been cut in most reckless and wasteful 
fashion, so that the destruction of the redwood for- 
ests is threatened. This danger has at last been 
realized and within the past year or two a strong 
effort has been made to end wholesale cutting by 
organizing a league to “Save the Redwoods.” 
Mr. Madison Grant, the Secretary of the New York 
Zoological Society, who has been most active in this 
good service, has written an interesting and fully 
illustrated history of the work done in 1919, which 
no doubt may be had on application to the Society. 
Actively interested with Mr. Grant are many men 
east and west who have done useful work in science, 
business, and public service. Among them are 
Franklin K. Lane, John C. Merriam, William Kent, 
Joseph D. Grant, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Henry S. 
Graves and Stephen T. Mather. The purposes of the 
League are to preserve existing redwoods so far as 
possible, to establish a national redwoods park, and 
to encourage the reforestation of cut over areas by 
natural means or by replanting. 
To all nature lovers the saying of these superb 
trees must be a matter of keen interest, but their 
protection is a peculiar need of the Pacific coast 
where they are native. It is the coast states that 
will naturally do most of the work toward saving 
them and toward fostering a new growth of red- 
woods on areas from which they have been swept 
away. The energy of Messrs Grant and Mather and 
Mr. Grant’s experience in organization have set this 
movement on foot, and it is for the people of the 
Pacific slope to impart to it a constantly increasing 
momentum. 
It’s beginnings were made easier by generous con- 
tributions of money by two Californians who already 
have put forth fine efforts to save for the Americans 
the natural things that Americans so readily destroy. 
Years ago Mr. William Kent presented to the nation 
the famous Muir woods on the slopes of Mt. Tswnal- 
pais north of San Francisco ; and Mr. Stephen Tyng 
Mather, the Director of the National Park Service, 
has given lavishly of time, effort, and money, in be- 
half of our national parks. Other coast people — 
individually and by counties and by states — must 
energetically take hold of this work and see to it that 
these wonderful forests are preserved for themselves 
and for future generations. 
MIGRATORY BIRD LAW 
YY/ITHIN the past year or two there has been 
** complaint by sportsmen that the Migratory 
Bird Law was not being enforced. Those who com- 
plained did not realize that the law was not enforced 
because Congress had provided no money for the 
purpose. Recently funds for this purpose have be- 
come available, and though they are small, the Bio- 
logical Survey is making them go as far as possible. 
The case of the State of Missouri vs. R. P. Holland 
was argued in the Supreme Court of the United 
States on March 2nd. This is the case in which the 
constitutionality of the Migratory Bird Law Enab- 
ling Act is said to be involved. 
A United States game warden recently arrested 
two violators in the Back Bay section of Virginia, 
and three at Havre de Grace, Maryland, and all were 
taken before United States Commissioners and bound 
over for the action of the Grand Jury. A warden on 
the New Jersey coast arrested three men for killing 
geese out of season. These arrests were of persis- 
tent violators of the law, two of whom were last 
year arrested and convicted on a similar charge. 
Wild ducks in cold storage have been seized in 
Oregon, Washington, Iowa, Maryland, and Virginia, 
and charges brought and convictions had for selling 
ducks in Maryland. One of these offenders paid a 
fifty-dollar fine; another, one of ten dollars. In 
Texas eleven violators brought before the Federal 
Court in Texarkana, Texas, in March, were fined ten 
dollars each. There have been many arrests in 
Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas, Kentucky, Illinois, and 
Iowa, but the cases have not yet been brought to 
trial. Cases which involve the killing and transpor- 
tation of ducks or swans are under consideration in 
South Carolina, Georgia, Montana, and Florida. 
On the whole there seems to be much activity 
among the game warden force of the Bureau of 
Biological Survey, and this force is constantly being 
increased. 
In view of the apparent effect of the Migratory 
Bird Law in adding to our supply of wild fowl, it 
is of high importance that the enforcement of the 
law should be strict. 
ETERNAL VIGILANCE 
YY/ITH the August number Forest and Stream 
W enters upon its forty-ninth year of continuous 
publication. During those years it has originated 
many and consistently championed every regulation 
looking toward the conservation of our natural re- 
sources and the preservation of our wild-life, and 
has fought with determination every attack directed 
against those already established. At this writing 
we are confronted by another attempt on the part 
of a group of people to encroach upon territory set 
aside for the use of the public at large. This pro- 
posed encroachment Forest and Stream is now 
combatting. Also, in this number there appears an 
article concerning the protection of the Alaska 
brown bear. That animal is threatened by legisla- 
tion which, if successful, will result in its early 
extermination. A careful reading of the article 
and the many extracts from letters bearing upon 
the subject is earnestly advocated. 
