1354 Wisconsin Academy of Sciences , Arts , and Letters. 
lishing harmonious relations with natural forces now acting* 
therefore he it 
Resolved: That the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences* Arts 
and Letters gives its hearty approval of this movement as being 
for the benefit of the agricultural, commercial and industrial 
interests of the state, and he it further 
Resolved: That the Academy at this time, earnestly rec¬ 
ommends to the people of the state and their legislative and 
executive representatives the carrying out of the wise plans of 
the State Board of Forestry for the preservation and increase 
of the forest resources of the state and the conservation and 
control of its lakes and streams. 
Whereas, the preservation of the game of a region is a duty 
that the citizens of any community owe to posterity and 
Whereas, the molestation of the birds of any region at the 
time when they are arriving from the spring migration and 
have recently or are about to mate and to select the locality in 
which they will nest and rear their young, strongly tends to 
drive them away from and prevent their nesting in said region, 
and 
Whereas, the spring shooting of ducks tends to drive these 
birds from their natural breeding grounds in this state and 
works towards the ultimate extinction of the species, therefore 
Resolved , that the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts 
and Letters looks with disfavor upon Assembly bill hTo. 188, 
recently introduced into the Legislature, legalizing the hunting 
of ducks in the month of April. 
Resolved , that the Secretary be directed to transmit a copy 
of this resolution to both houses of the legislature and to the 
governor of the state. 
Bennet M. Allen - , 
Secretary. 
