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FOREST AND STREAM 
March, 1919 
FOREST ilE STREAM 
FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR 
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
GOVERNING BOARD: 
GEOKGE BIRD GRINNELL, New York, N. Y. 
CARL E. AKELEY. American Museum of Natural History, New York 
FRANK S. DAGGETT, Museum of Science, Los Angeles, Cal. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
C. HART MERRIAM, Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
WILFRED H. OSGOOD, Field Museum of Natural History. Chicago, 111. 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES SHELDON, Washington. D. C. 
GEORGE SHIRAS, 3rd. Washington, D. C. 
WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 
TOM WOOD, Manager 
Nine East Fortieth Street, New York City 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously •promote a healthful interest in outdoor rec- 
reation, and a refined taste for natural objects. 
August 14, 1873. 
SAVE NEW JERSEY’S PHEASANTS! 
"THE following communication has been received 
from the American Game Protective Association : 
“Disturbing rumors are afloat with regard to an 
attempt to remove protection from ringneck hen 
pheasants in New Jersey. The flve-year closed sea- 
son on these birds expires this year. It should be, 
by all means, renewed. If it is not, years of devoted 
and successful work on the part of Mr. Duncan 
Dunn, superintendent of the New Jersey state game 
farm, will go for naught. New York has been pro- 
ducing more ringnecks than New Jersey, as it has 
three state farms, and its breeding operations have 
covered a longer period of years, yet a proposal 
to remove the protection afforded the female of the 
species would And the sportsmen of that state in 
arms instanter. 
Here is an opportunity for the newly-formed New 
Jersey State Sportsmen’s Association. It is also 
taken for granted that the Board of Game Com- 
missioners will act vigorously in this matter. Every 
sportsman in New Jersey should file his protest at 
once, both with the board and his representative in 
the legislature, too. It will take only about two 
years to make the ringneck a memory in New Jer- 
sey, if protection is removed from the hen. To 
take such action when years of intelligent stocking 
are beginning to bear fruit would be suicidal. New 
Jersey sportsmen should arise in their might and 
protest.” 
If it is the desire of the sportsmen of New Jersey 
further to propagate the ringneck pheasant it is 
highly important that the protection of the hen bird 
be continued, but while on this subject it should 
be stated that the sportsmen of this country have 
never been and are not at present united on the de- 
sirability of introducing foreign game birds into 
American coverts. Many experienced and able stu- 
dents of game conservation believe that all of our 
efforts and money should be devoted to the propaga- 
tion of native birds, and many believe that the scar- 
city of native birds in sections of the country where 
the ringneck pheasants have been introduced is due 
largely to the carniverous and predatory habits of 
these wily Orientals. 
A SPORTSMEN’S MEMORIAL TO A GREAT LEADER 
■yHE National Association of Audubon Societies and 
^ its affiliated State Organizations, Bird Societies 
and Sportsmen’s Clubs, throughout the country, will 
at once begin the work of providing for the ultimate 
erection of a notable work of art to be known as the 
Roosevelt Memorial Bird Fountain. 
There is not the slightest doubt, but wffiat the 
lovers of out-of-door life will combine to support 
this tribute to our great fallen leader. Colonel 
Roosevelt was the most forceful champion of wild 
life conservation the world has ever produced. He 
exposed the school of sham nature writers and drove 
them to cover under the stinging appellation of na- 
ture fakers. He encouraged by example, by influ- 
ence and by contributions the work of scientific 
natural history study. As President he established 
the principle of the United States Bird Reservations 
and by executive order created thirty-eight of these 
federal bird sanctuaries. As a hunter he taught the 
world lessons in straight, clean sportsmanship. 
T. Gilbert Pearson, the Secretary of the Audubon 
Society, who originated the idea, has been given the 
approval of Mrs. Roosevelt. 
It is understood that the most eminent sculptors 
in America will present plans for the fountain which 
when completed will be not only the most unique 
but one of the handsomest works of out-of-door art 
in the world. Its location will be decided upon later. 
A National Committee of nature lovers and sports- 
men has been formed to advance the project. Sug- 
gestions and subscriptions should be sent to Mr. 
Pearson at the offices of the Association, 1974 Broad- 
way, New York City. 
TO DOMESTICATE THE MUSK-OX- 
■yHE return of Mr. Stefansson from the far north, 
^ where he has done such splendid work in explora- 
tion and made so many discoveries of new lands and 
new people, is a matter for congratulation, not only 
to the Canadian Government that sent him out, but 
to all of us in the United States. What Mr. Stefans- 
son has done, the great distances that he has traveled, . 
the new islands and new animals that he has dis- 
covered have been told of briefly in the daily net^^s- 
papers and need not be repeated here. A matter 
of great interest to naturalists and hunters alike is 
the fact that in Isachsen Land he discovered a race 
of caribou, hardly more than half the size of the 
Barren Ground caribou of the Coppermine River 
country, which in its turn is much smaller than the 
animal of the woodlands, the one best known to 
American sportsmen. 
A matter of still wider interest is Mr. Stefansson’s 
announcement of a belief that the musk-ox may be 
domesticated, and may be reintroduced in portions 
of Northern Alaska. It is well understood by zo- 
ologists that at a point not very distant in time — 
perhaps within a hundred years — the musk-ox was 
found in some numbers on the west side of the Mac- 
kenzie River and Dr. R. M. Anderson, we believe, 
found among the Esquimaux living in Alaska a musk- 
ox robe still in use, which was reported to have been 
