May, 1913 RECENT CAMPAIGN FOR THE CONSERVATION OF WILD RIFE 
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I, AW heretofore 
1. Sale of band-tailed pigeons and wild 
ducks allowed. 
2. Shipment of protected wild game per- 
mitted. 
3. No civil service for fish and game 
wardens. 
4. Propagation of wild game in captivity 
not provided for. 
5. Use for food of birds shot destroying 
crops permitted. 
6. Possession of plumage of wild birds 
permitted. 
7. Bag-limit on ducks 25 a day, SO a week. 
8. Bag-limit on quail 20 a day, no weekly 
limit. 
9 . License required to hunt but not to 
fish. 
10. No provision in law for the Fish and 
Game Commission carrying on educa- 
tional work or scientific investigation. 
11. No specific appropriation for the scien- 
tific and educational work of the Fish 
and Game Commi.ssion. 
12. ' Aliens allowed to hunt and bear fire- 
arms. 
13. Seasons on the Rallidae, Limicolae, 
Band-tailed Pigeon, Wood Duck, Ibis, 
Sea Otter. 
LAW" AS AMENDED BY THE PRESENT LEGISLA- 
TURE (1913) 
1. Sale of band-tailed pigeons and wild 
ducks proliibited (ducks may be sold 
during November). 
2. Shipment of protected wild game pro- 
hibited. 
3. Civil service for fish and game wardens. 
4. Propagation of wdld game in captivity 
provided for. 
5. Use for food of birds shot destroying 
crops prohibited. 
6. Possession of plumage of wild birds 
prohibited for any purpose. 
7. Bag-limit on ducks 15 a day, 30 a 
week. 
8. Bag-limit on quail, 15 a day, 30 a week. 
9. License required to either hunt or fish. 
10. Provision in law that Fish and Game 
Commission may carry forward edu- 
cational work or scientific investigation 
as the necessity may arise. 
11. Appropriation of $5000 for carrying for- 
ward educational work and scientific 
investigation. 
12. Aliens prohibited from hunting and 
bearing firearms. 
13. Absolute protection accorded the Ral- 
lidae, Limicolae (except the Wilson 
Snipe), Band-tailed Pigeon, Wood 
Duck, Ibis, Sea Otter. 
Furthermore, no losses w^ere registered. An attempt was made to open a sea- 
son on robins, meadowlarks, and blackbirds, as well as to remove protection from 
the so-called “fish-eating birds.” These attempts, however, fortunately came to 
nought. 
Two Joint Resolutions of interest to wild life conservationists were adopted. 
One memorializes Congress to set aside a part or all of the National Forest in 
California as a game preserve. The other requests the President of the Fbiited 
States to propose to the governments of the world the negotiation of an Inter- 
national Congress for the Conservation of Wild Life, to be held in San Francisco 
in 1915. 
Several of these measures ^yere the subject of terrific assaults from a few 
disafifected and misguided law-makers. Their passage was only possible through 
continuous and vigorous attention on the part of friends of wild life conservation 
within and without the legislature. Of course the changes above listed do not 
represent all the improvements registered during this legislative session. They 
are merely those in which it may be assumed the California Associated Societies 
are most interested. 
At one time the publication of a list of those persons to whom credit is due 
for our series of victories was contemplated. So many friends were found, how- 
ever, that this is an impossibility. The success of the campaigTi should be credited ; 
( I ) to those individuals and organzations who donated money to the cause and 
