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F () R E ST A N I) S T R E A M 
One Year as a Monthly Magazine 
ITH this number Forest and Stream 
closes its first year as a monthly maga¬ 
zine. It would be remissness on our 
part not to extend to old subscribers and the 
thousands of new readers who have been added 
to Forest and Stream’s family this year, a word 
of cordial appreciation for the encouragement 
and kindly praise that have followed the conver¬ 
sion of the weekly issue into a larger and better 
publication. 
To elaborate on the mere promise of a pro¬ 
gram for 1916, would be easy. We will not at¬ 
tempt it, but we can assure every reader of this 
paper a better Forest and Stream during the 
months to come. \\ e expect to accomplish this 
without in the least departing from the high 
plane which Forest and Stream has occupied con¬ 
sistently in the past. We feel that there ought to 
be one outdoor publication at least in the United 
States which can adhere to the principles on 
which this paper was established and still main- • 
tains. We say this without the least prejudice 
against those who prefer what might be termed 
the rah, rah, rah” style of sporting journalism, 
with its easy slang and flippant verbiage. As 
Lincoln remarked, “for those who like this sort 
of thing, that is the sort of thing they like” but 
it pleases us to think that in the United States 
there are more people who admire and support 
papers of high class purposes and policies than 
the other kind. 
For forty-three years—more than a generation 
Forest and Stream has fought the battle of 
game and fish conservation in this country. In 
its long career, this paper has been more than a 
mere collection of hunting and fishing tales. It 
has been a living force in the outdoor world of 
America. Twenty years ago Forest and Stream 
announced its famous platform plank, “The 
sale of game should be forbidden at all times.” 
We all know what has happened in the twenty 
years that have passed. Forest and Stream’s 
platform has so commended itself to the public 
intelligence that it has been embodied—in whole 
or in part—in the laws of more than forty-six 
states in the Union and Provinces of the Do¬ 
minion. 
The Audubon Society, now one of the great 
conservation bodies of the world, was organized 
by Forest and Stream and its certificate of in¬ 
corporation bears the name of three of the then 
officers of this paper. Of that fact we are 
proud. But this does not measure all the work 
that has been accomplished through this paper 
and the assistance of its friends and subscribers. 
Forest and Stream during the past forty years 
has inspired most of the laws, the enforcement 
of which has preserved the portion of the game 
and fish left in this country. It has expended 
money lavishly but legitimately in fighting your 
battles, Mr. Friend and Subscriber, in order that 
your pleasure and recreation might not be inter¬ 
fered with. 
In conclusion we can only say that we will 
endeavor to be of the same service in the future, 
and we ask, and know that we are entitled to 
receive, the cordial co-operation and support of 
the good sportsmen both of the United States 
and Canada. 
American Canoe Association Races 
HE American Canoe Association, among 
the oldest of outdoor organizations in 
this country, and sponsor for the clean¬ 
est of amateur sport, has taken an important 
step forward in arranging a series of paddling 
'. aces at Sugar Island next August, for the cham¬ 
pionship of America. As Commodore Spauld¬ 
ing well says, the prestige, the age and the size 
of the American Canoe Association warrant its 
assuming championship races. Paddlers, wheth¬ 
er members of the Association or not, will be 
invited to enter without the obligation of join¬ 
ing unless they so choose, and canoe clubs 
throughout Canada and the United States will 
be asked to send their best paddlers so that the 
question as to who has the right to the claim 
to championship may be settled. Tentatively it 
is proposed that there shall be junior, interme¬ 
diate and senior races in the single paddles, tan¬ 
dem paddles and fours events. 
The meeting of the Executive Committee of 
the American Canoe Association at Buffalo on 
October 23, endorsed the championship plan in 
detail and the races will be held with the full 
sanction of the organization. In closing it is 
only fitting that Forest and Stream should ex¬ 
press its appreciation at having been again 
chosen as the official organ of the Association, 
an honor that has been held by this paper for 
years. 
Canoeing is becoming more and more the rec¬ 
reation of the American outdoor fraternity. The 
sport owes all that it is to-day to the American 
Canoe Association and every man who uses a 
canoe regularly or who delights in occasional 
canoeing, should become a member of this pio¬ 
neer organization. The annual cost is so small 
as to be almost negligible and there are many 
advantages extended members which make con¬ 
nection with the parent body highly desirable. 
Game Conditions in New Country 
IRGIN hunting and fishing territory is 
hard to find these days, unless one has the 
time and means to penetrate regions far 
from civilization. Now and then the building of 
a railroad system makes accessible new territory 
that in the past had been closed to travel or 
casual exploration. An instance of this was fur¬ 
nished in the building of the great transcon¬ 
tinental line that crosses Canada far to the north 
of other existing railway lines and which pene¬ 
trates for a considerable distance what had been 
regarded as the last big game field on the con¬ 
tinent. Sportsmen who took early opportunity 
of getting into the new country wrote glowingly 
of the region, and one or more of them de- 
cribed the northwestern Quebec section as a 
moose paradise. An energetic Canadian citizen 
went so far as to erect a number of camps there 
in the hope of obtaining the patronage of better 
class sportsmen who were looking for new hunt¬ 
ing grounds. 
During the past season quite a number of such 
sportsmen resorted to these camps. They had 
nothing to complain of in the matter of com¬ 
fortable accommodation, but several, upon their 
return to the United States, wrote Forest and 
Stream that stories of the abundance of game 
had been much exaggerated and that good heads 
were lacking. This paper submitted the facts to 
the promoter of the enterprise and insisted that a 
straight answer and explanation should be forth¬ 
coming for publication—this in fairness both to 
himself and to readers of Forest and Strcani. 
The answer will be found in another column un¬ 
der the heading “The Truth About Northwestern 
Quebec.” 
T he explanation, reduced to last analysis, seems 
to be that while the particular portion of the ter¬ 
ritory picked out for exploitation was and is an 
ideal moose country, the hunting for 1915 had 
been unsuccessful because of fires, bad weather 
and other untoward conditions. When all this 
became evident, a new section to the south was 
hunted with good results. 
The moral is that while a country may be vir¬ 
gin in every respect, it does not follow that 
game animals are to be found by the casual hun¬ 
ter. Much less is it likely that the inexperienced 
hunter can feel certain of obtaining good heads. 
But from the standpoint of all experience, the 
chances of success in a new country are much 
better than in the nearer-at-home, hunted-over 
regions. The one thing that militates against 
success in territories that have not been under the 
control of game authorities is that the Indians 
who prowl through sections adjoining barter 
posts and are more or less in contact with civili¬ 
zation, usually become meat hunters pure and 
simply, and work woeful waste with the game 
supply. 
A Lesson From the Antipodes 
E have before us an extract from the 1915 
report of the North Tasmanian Fisheries 
Association which cites as an ordinary in¬ 
stance the fact that one body of water, Lake 
Leake, covering only 1,500 acres or about 2% 
square miles, yielded during the past season 1,680 
rainbows weighing 7,834 pounds or 3% tons; the 
largest fish on the fly scaled 9 pounds and on 
spinner io pounds, with the average of 4 2-3 
pounds to the fish. Records equally startling hold 
good year after year. Think of a little lake like 
that in the United States or Canada which could 
stand such fishing! 
The same report mentions another fact of in¬ 
terest to American anglers. This is that the 
beautiful Sebago salmon has been successfully 
established in Tasmania and will soon begin to 
yield fine sport. Another matter interesting 
from the ichthyological standpoint is that after 
fifty years of failure the quinnat salmon of the 
Pacific coast has been made to adopt a New Zea¬ 
land home. These fish are now running in from 
the sea and spawning in the fresh water rivers. 
If the quinnat multiplies in New Zealand .as 
have other fishes, the canned salmon of com¬ 
merce certainly will not disappear from the 
earth. It is a long, long way to Tasmania, but 
the moral is that we of this country and Canada 
may find it better and cheaper to follow the in¬ 
telligent methods of the Antipodes than to con¬ 
template the possibility, not many years removed, 
of having to make that journey if we wish to 
continue our favorite sport of hunting or fishing. 
