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MICHIGAN SPORTSMEN FOR 
CONSERVATION. 
Changes of the name from the Michigan Asso¬ 
ciation to the “Michigan Wild Life Conservation 
Association,” adoption of a new constitution and 
by-laws, adoption of a number of important 
resolutions including one which sets forth the 
aims and objects of the association, and election 
of officers concluded the business of the annual 
convention of this important state body in Lansing. 
The most important resolution of all was the 
following: 
Resolved: That the Michigan‘Wild Life Con¬ 
servation Association is opposed to the killing of 
any wild animal, at any time, in any manner, ex¬ 
cept where it has been plainly determined that 
such killing is for the economic benefit of the 
people of the state of Michigan as a whole, from 
the standpoint of science, food value, or as an 
By Edward T. Martin. 
OING to San Francisco this year? Going 
to the Great Panama-Pacific Exposition? 
Of course! Why not? Every sportsman, 
every lover of the great out door world, de¬ 
votees of shot gun, keen eyed rifle men, fisher 
folk, yacht men, all should be there. Their Cali¬ 
fornia brothers expect them and will extend a 
royal welcome, a hospitality which like that of 
the old South in antebellum days one reads of 
but seldom meets. 
adjunct to recreation. Further, that this asso¬ 
ciation goes on record with the declaration that 
the most important consideration in our wild life 
is the protection of our insectiverous and seed 
eating song and other birds, inasmuch as it is the 
belief of this association, that all vegetable ano 
all other animal life, including man, is dependent 
upon birds, as insect and seed destroyers, for the 
requirements of existence. 
With one exception, the old officers were re¬ 
elected. The exception is vice-president, G. 
Pardee of Owosso being named to position of 
vice-president in place of F. H. Shearer of Bay 
City. President W. B. Mershon of Saginaw, 
Secretary H. B. Gilbert of Flint and Treasurer 
George M. Brown of Detroit all were re-elected. 
President W. B. Mershon of the Michigan 
Association presided over the banquet and his 
introductory remarks were a few words in which 
he pleaded for “Conservation of Wild Life.” 
Many oif the countries specialize on fish and 
game exhibits. Canada with its display o'f fur, 
fur farming, and fur bearers including a mother 
beaver and her family of kits, so strong and 
lusty that it is with difficulty they are kept in 
prison pens; Japan showing birds and fish, Aus¬ 
tralia with specimens from mountains, woods 
anid streams, New Zealand whose chief commis¬ 
sioner the Lion. Edward Clifton and assistant, 
Maurice O’Brien, Esq., 'both are ardent sports¬ 
men and whose exhibits fill many a packing case 
and box covering every native fish and animal 
from a giant king fish, resembiing our tarpon, 
to the graceful red deer whose ancestors came 
from the moors of Scotland. 
Then there is California, queen of them all who 
has outdone herself. For many months she has 
kept parties in the Sierras and afield gathering 
varied specimens in great numbers, of deer and 
elk, valley quail and mountain quail with their 
desert kin. Beast, bird, fish and snake, every¬ 
thing from a tiny field mouse to a giant cinnamon 
bear, including some o'f the world-famed golden 
trout-—such a display as has never before come 
from a single state—-no, nor from many. This 
though, should be expected, for there is no part of 
these United States where game is so plentiful 
or fish so numerous and with hunting grounds 
or fishing waters so reachable by train or auto 
as in this same Golden State whose sons will 
never weary in entertaining their guests whether 
from east or west or foreign lands. 
Sportsmen availing themselves of the low rail¬ 
road rates and coming to the Pacific Coast will 
be well rewarded. 
Visitors in search of sport, shooting or fishing 
—those coming for the opening—at first must 
content themselves with big game shooting or a 
little fishing, black striped bass and salmon be¬ 
ing in season. There is open season only on the 
predatory animals, cougars, cats, bears and 
wolves. The first named are reasonably abund¬ 
ant. Despite a $20 bounty and the killing of 
several hundred yearly it is barely a week since 
a band of four cougars or mountain lions, raided 
the coast slopes of San Mateo county not twenty 
miles 'from the Exposition gates, land which 
borders San Francisco Bay. The cowardly cats 
left a trail of dead deer and cattle where they 
bad killed for the sake of killing. They made 
several forays, the latest being directed against 
the live stock of a ranch close to the town f 
Half Moon Bay, which is not over fifteen miles 
from the nearest section of San Francisco. Dogs 
owned locally refused to follow their trail. There 
were no hunters skilled enough to track them 
through the tangle on the lands of the Spring 
Valley Water Co. whence comes the drinking 
supply-—water only—of the City. An expedition 
has been organized to run the robbers down, 'but 
it will probably result as such attempts nearly 
always do and the lions with many others of 
their kind, remain unharmed, so perhaps in after 
years sottne Nimrod of a visitor to the Exposition 
may point to a fine rug of cougar skin and say: 
“Here is a souvenir of California and her great 
Exposition,” while bis children, listening with 
bated breath to the oft told story of the killing, 
hope in after years such luck may befall them also. 
As for fishing. Early it won’t be much. Later 
very good. The State is a careful guardian of 
all game fish, and yearly saves many thousands 
of 'black bass for “'during the annual freshets 
the swamp lands on the lower King’s and San 
Joaquin rivers are inundated and vast numbers of 
black bass and other species of fish leave the 
main channel to take up their abode in the over¬ 
flow waters. When the flow in the river becomes 
normal, millions of these fish are out off from 
the main channels and unless rescued must even¬ 
tually perish when the flooded area again be¬ 
come dry. It has been found practicable to take 
up the bulk of these stranded fish and return 
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