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as it enables us to provide bird sanctuaries. Dur¬ 
ing the year of 1914 fifty-five parcels of land of 
private ownership, comprising 24,000 acres, were 
dedicated to the state as game refuges. The 
state also has hundreds of thousands of acres of 
wild and idle lands that could be used for sanc¬ 
tuaries but we are not doing anything with them 
now other than the police duty that is incident 
to the old idea of game protection by enacting 
more stringent laws, restricting the bag and then 
arresting violators if they can be caught. 
I am making this appeal so that we can bring 
together the best thought on this subject and the 
convention may be of national use in that respect. 
Our Public Domain Commission here having 
charge of this phase of the work is anxious to 
do something practical if someone will only tell 
it how. We want some addresses from men 
capable of handling the subject on the planting 
of food, fencing, posting, putting the same under 
the care of game keepers instead of game war¬ 
dens, exterminating vermin, keeping out fire, 
transferring wild life from covers where it would 
be spared to refuges where it needs it for breed¬ 
ing purposes. 
Please give this subject publicity with the hope 
that we may have a successful convention and 
bring something to a practical focus on this much 
talked of question of “More Game.’’ 
W. B. Menhon, 
President Michigan Wild Life Conservation 
Association. 
HUNTING IN BRITISH COLUMBIA. 
McBride, B. C., Jan. 1, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Hunting is good if in central British Columbia. 
It was never better than it is this year. If one 
goes to the right spot he can come hack with the 
full legal limit of big game. I was in the Goat 
River district. Included in the party were Mr. 
W. J. Young, wife and daughter, of Nashville, 
Tenn., and Mr. Joe Browder, of Fulton, Ky. The 
ladies did not hunt. We were thirty-one days in 
quest of game and got six caribou, four moose, 
a goat apiece and a grizzly. They could have 
got more if they wished. We saw altogether 108 
caribou, fourteen moose, eight goats and four 
grizzlies. It is needless for me to say that we 
came away well satisfied. 
Joe La Salle, 
Mountaineer, Hunter and Guide, 
CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF LOUISI¬ 
ANA READY TO GIVE INFORMATION. 
New Orleans, Dec. 16, 1915. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Owing to President M. L. Alexander’s absence 
from the city I have answered Mr. -’s re¬ 
quest for snipe information telling him to call at 
our offices when in New Orleans and we will give 
him directions for reaching snipe shooting 
marshes near the city. 
Please feel at liberty to direct any of the sports¬ 
men of your vicinity to call upon us when in New 
Orleans or write us for shooting information. 
Very truly yours, 
Stanley Clisby Arthur, Ornithologist. 
WARNING TO HUNTERS. 
Game Birds May Not Be Brought Into This State 
From the South. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
Under the State conservation law (formerly 
known as the forest, fish and game law) the open 
season for the taking of all game birds, such as 
quail, pheasants, grouse and partridge, closed on 
Dec. 31, 1915, with the exception of wild ducks, 
on which the season in open for the taking until 
Jan. 10, 1916, with possession until Jan. 15, 1916. 
It appears, however, that the season is open in 
many of the Southern States—North Carolina, 
South Carolina, and Georgia—where quail, 
grouse, partridge, pheasants and wild turkeys 
may be taken up to March 15. Many of the resi¬ 
dents of this city are now going down on shoot¬ 
ing trips, and are bringing back to this State the 
species of game on which our season is closed. 
The result has been that our game protectors 
have had to seize the game thus brought into 
this State, in addition to which the party bring¬ 
ing the game into this State is guilty of a viola¬ 
tion of the State law for having such birds in 
his possession during our closed season. 
There is no possible way in which to bring 
into this Staffi any of the game birds on which 
our season is closed at the present time, even 
though it is lawful to kill and export the same 
in the State where taken. Already many prom¬ 
inent people of this city have settled with the 
Conservation Commission for violation of this 
provision of our law. 
The legality of this law has been upheld by a 
case which was carried to the Supreme Court of 
the United States—Hasterberg vs. Silz, 211 U. 
S., 31. 
It will, therefore, behoove every one going 
