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FOREST AND STREAM 
June 8, 1912 
Published Weekly by the 
Forest and Stream Publishing Company, 
Charles Otis, President. 
W. G. Beecroft, Secretary. S. J. Gibson, Treasurer. 
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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THE LAST STEP. 
The bills designed to afford Federal pro¬ 
tection to migratory game and insectivorous 
birds, introduced by Senator McLean and Con¬ 
gressman Weeks, have been .reported favorably 
by the committee and are now^ in order of passage. 
With regard to the necessity of this legis¬ 
lation, naturalists and sportsmen are of one 
mind. With the enormous increase of the num¬ 
ber of gunners and the steady decrease of wood¬ 
cock, wildfowl and the other migratory species, 
alternating with periods of temporary increase 
in certain localities, but general and marked as 
applied to a period of years in a large extent 
of country, it is apparent that unless such action 
is soon taken, the death knell of this kind of 
game has been sounded. 
In 1857 the Legislature of Ohio refused to 
furnish requested protection to the wild pigeon 
and passed a resolution, which read in part as 
follows: “The passenger pigeon needs no pro¬ 
tection. Wonderfully prolific, having the vast 
forest of the north as its breeding grounds, 
traveling hundreds of miles in search of food, 
it is here to-day and elsewhere to-morrow, and 
no ordinary destruction can lessen them or be 
missed from the myriads that are yearly pro¬ 
duced.” Comment on this resolution is unneces¬ 
sary except to point attention to the fact that 
this should not be the attitude of the lawmakers 
of t’o-day. It will not be if the sportsmen exert 
themselves and show our representatives that the 
protection is required. 
Clubs and individual sportsmen should urge 
upon their Senators and Congressmen the neces¬ 
sity of passing the McLean and Weeks bills. 
Personal letters will let them know that you 
feel the necessity of passing this great conser¬ 
vation measure. Now is the time for action. 
Do not wait till, as in the case of the passenger 
pigeon, it is too late. 
VOLUME ONE—NUMBER ONE. 
!May 28 marked the fiftieth anniversary of 
the departure of the Twenty-second Regiment 
of New York for the front. The occasion fit¬ 
tingly was commemorated with a banquet at 
which only twenty, all that remains of the regi¬ 
ment, were present. Our interest in the regi¬ 
ment is personal as well as patriotic, for among 
the twenty sixty-oners was R. T. Greene, of Bos¬ 
ton, who terms himself Volume One, Number One. 
because he bought a copy of the first issue of 
Forest and Stream and has been a continuous 
subscriber ever since that day—Aug. 14, 1873. 
In these many years, fishing, shooting and read¬ 
ing Forest and Stream have been Mr. Greene's 
three principal recreations. He can tie a fly 
with the most expert, one of his own flies, Ethel 
Greene—named for his daughter—being sold by 
Boston tackle dealers. 
j\lr. Greene and his daughter spend every 
summer in the IMaine woods fishing, and few 
more successful anglers are to be found whip¬ 
ping the streams and flicking the fly on the 
lakes than Volume One, Number One and his 
charming daughter. 
DR. RAINSFORD GOES HUNTING. 
Dr. William S. Rainsford, who for many 
years has been a mighty hunter, in a religious 
and a big-game sense, has relinquished the minis¬ 
try to become a layman. In early fall. Dr. 
Rainsford will take an expedition to East Africa 
to secure specimens of black rhinoceros for the 
American Museum of Natural History. The 
museum is anxious to get a black specimen, as 
a mounted mate for the white rhinoceros killed 
by Theodore Roosevelt last year. Dr. Rainsford 
has supplied many wonderful specimens to the 
museum, including implements of war used by 
the East African natives, as well as natural his¬ 
tory exhibits. Dr. Rainsford has been one of 
the most conscientious men in the service of the 
church, and his understanding of, and popular ty 
with, young men has done much toward Iiring- 
ing young America into the fold of Christian 
religion. He has grown white-haired in the ser¬ 
vice, and has earned a rest from active duty. 
CALIFORNIA BIG TREES. 
The Forest Service is raising several acres 
of big tree seedlings on the Tahoe National 
Forest in California at a more northerly point 
than any natural big tree grove. While the 
giant sequoias are found in the forests of the 
Sierras at various points throughout a total range 
of some 250 miles in the northern two-thirds 
of this range, there is practically no natural re¬ 
production. It has consequently been a question 
whether the species would not practically dis¬ 
appear from this region when the present mature 
trees die. 
The most northern existing grove of big 
trees is on the Tahoe forest, but about thirty- 
four miles southeast of the site selected for 
planting. This site is on a moist flat not far 
from Nevada City, and is about 2,700 feet above 
sea level. The first seeding was done in the 
fall of 1910, with very successful results, and 
last fall an additional area was seeded. 
The method used in planting the seed was 
that known to foresters . as “the seed spot 
method.” Spots about six feet apart each way 
were prepared by pulverizing the earth with a 
garden hoe. Seeds were then dropped on these 
spots and lightly pressed in the soil with the 
foot. The flourishing condition of the young 
seedlings gives good reason to expect a future 
growth of big trees at this point. With protec¬ 
tion of forests from fire there seems to be no 
reason why the big trees should disappear, even 
though scientists regard them as survivals from 
a past age, botanically speaking. 
MIXING OCEANS’ FISH FAUNA. 
One novel effect of the completion of the 
Panama canal will be the intermixing of the fish 
fauna of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the 
isthmus, according to the fish experts of the 
United States Bureau of Fisheries who have 
completed a survey of the isthmian waters. 
S. F. Hildebrand, of the Bureau of Fisheries, 
and Dr. S. E. !Meek, of the Eield Museum of 
Natural History of Chicago, have just returned 
from the Canal Zone after completing a collec¬ 
tion of the fishes indigenous to Zone waters for 
the Smithsonian Institution. All of the fishes 
of the Canal Zone, including the fresh water 
\arieties of the inland streams and lakes, are 
represented in the collection. A second survey 
will be made in from five to ten years to verify 
the prognostication of a complete intermixing of 
species of the two coasts after the canal is opened. 
GAME LAVS IN LOUISIANA. 
It is almost certain that the present Legis¬ 
lature in session in Baton Rouge, La., will amend, 
in many important particulars, the present game 
and fish laws and abolish the game warden sys¬ 
tem. Governor Hall, in his inauguration speech 
a few days ago, advocated the conservation of 
the natural food supply and a Statewide system 
which will not centralize too much power in the 
chief executive or any commission and impose 
unnecessary or costly burdens upon the people. 
Governor Hall is opposed to the abolition of all 
laws on the subject of conservation of every 
character, and a wise law should be enacted on 
the subject. 
BAIT AD LIB. 
Myriads of grasshoppers and mosquito hawks 
visited New Orleans one day last week just before 
a big rainfall, and many fishermen made efforts to 
secure some of the insects for baiting purposes. 
Several fishermen explained that the insects 
W'ere driven to the city by the high waters some 
miles above the city. It is declared by many 
that they never saw as many grasshoppers and 
mosquito hawks before, and the numbers are 
estimated in the hundreds of thousands. They 
attracted much attention. Many of the insects 
landed on the sides of buildings and remained 
for some hours. 
UNLAWFUL CATCH FOR CONVICTS. 
The fish and game commissoin in California 
recently removed all the confiscated fish and 
game, the result of raids made several months 
ago, from cold storage houses in San Francisco 
and shipped it to San Quentin prison, where it 
w'as prepared for the convicts there. The lot 
included 100 pounds of striped bass, go pounds 
of catfish, 100 pounds of salmon, 100 pounds of 
trout, 7 dozen quail, 5 dozen robins, 2 sides of 
venison, 80 pounds of elk meat and 60 pounds 
of sole. 
