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BY THE WAYSIDE 
the presidents before liim, up to about 
30. The number of federal bird re¬ 
serves is now (July, 1913) 64. 
March 4. The president signed the 
McLean bill to protect all migratory 
birds, to prohibit all spring shooting 
and all night hunting everywhere in 
the United States. 
May 9. Our legislature passed a law 
(No. 37S, now Chap. 73, Sect. 1498 a & 
b) requiring deputies of the state game 
warden’s department to educate the 
citizens of this state on the conserva¬ 
tion of fish and game. The state war¬ 
den now has a board of lecturers. 
May 14. Our legislature sent a Joint 
Resolution (introduced at my request 
by Capt. Larsen of Marinette) to con¬ 
gress calling for the establishment of 
bird reserves on all the vacant islands 
of the Great Lakes which are not pri¬ 
vately owned. 
June 21. Our legislature passed an 
annual appropriation of $20,000, (No. 
206S, now Chap. 528, Sect. 1498—25) 
requiring the game warden to propa¬ 
gate our native game birds in suitable 
parts of the state. This work begins 
this spring. 
September 1. State forester Griffith 
decreed that all state parks should be 
henceforth dosed to hunting at all 
seasons, thus making them the first Wis¬ 
consin state bird reserve,—thus saving 
them to the enjoyment of all the peo¬ 
ple : A 
Audubon Wild Life Refuge No. 1 In¬ 
terstate Park, St. Croix Palls. 
Audubon Wild Life Refuge No. 2 
Marquette Park, below Prairie du 
Cliien. 
Audubon Wild Life Refuge No. 3 
Devil’s Lake Park, DeviPs Lake. 
Audubon Wild Life Refuge No. 4 
Peninsula Park, Fish Creek, Door Co. 
Audubon Wild Life Refuge No. 5 
Brule Park, Douglas Co. 
Audubon AYild Life Refuge No. 6 
University Grounds. 
And what are we going to do with 
this university refuge? We hope to 
make it a demonstration reserve for en¬ 
couraging similar nature reserves all 
over the state. 4)o you know, Kaiser 
Wilhelm gave 50,000 marks ($12,500) 
the other day to the German society 
for the establishment of nature pre¬ 
serves ? 
October 1. President AVilson signed 
at noon the regulations for administer¬ 
ing the McLean law. 
October 3. President AVilson signed 
the federal tariff law stopping the im¬ 
portation of egret plumes and part* *»f 
any wild birds not lor scientific or 
school study, admitting only ostrich 
plumes or feathers of domestic fowl. 
October 16. Our university p resi¬ 
dent, Dr. Van Rise, and the deans, fol¬ 
lowing my suggestions, ordered the 
closing of the 1,000 acre domain to 
hunting or rifling of any kind of its 
natural treasures, the grounds being 
posted during the November hunting 
season, and patrolled under the direc¬ 
tion of the State Game AVarden, begin¬ 
ning Dec. 1. 
Dec. 5. The Wisconsin Audubon 
Society voted to appeal to the citizens 
of tliis State to establish Bird and 
Game Refuges on private property in 
every county of this state, whether of 
an acre or of a square mile in area. 
The same night, the annual meeting of 
the AVis. Fish & Game Protective & 
Propagation League in the Assembly 
Chamber of the Capitol, endorsed the 
move and pledged to cooperate. 
