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FOREST AND STREAM 
JUNE, 1917 
HODTOC^DAIL ©OIMI^IMNIT 
on happenings of note in the outdoor world 
THE MIGRATORY BIRD LAW 
DEATH OF COL. W. D. PICKETT 
A N enabling act, for carrying out the provisions of the 
treaty between the United States and Canada af¬ 
fecting migratory birds, recently introduced in the 
Senate, was favorably reported from committee. 
Ever since the treaty was ratified, the United States 
has been in honor bound to provide a means to enable it 
to carry out its agreements with the Dominion. Since 
war has been declare d snrk_ar t.ion becomes doubly a duty. 
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moment possible. Its passage will be a contribution to 
the public welfare whose importance it would be hard to 
overestimate. Its passage will give encouragement to 
every man or woman who in these trying times is en¬ 
deavoring to raise a little food for family tise. It will 
give encouragement, too, to every farmer, large and 
small, who, feeling the seriousness of the present situa¬ 
tion, wishes to add to the food supply of the world the 
product of his acres, be they many or be they few. 
Congress should pass the enabling act. 
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C OL. WM. D. PICKETT, for a generation corre¬ 
spondent of Forest and Stream, eminent as soldier, 
railroad builder and big game hunter, died at his 
home in Lexington, Kentucky, March 5th. 
Wm. D. Pickett was born in Alabama in October, 1827, 
and as a child was taken to Kentucky. 
In January 1847, he enlisted for a year’s service in the 
Mexican war, but before his regiment got into the fight¬ 
ing the war was over, and its chief service was the pro¬ 
tection of the Texas frontiers against the attacks of hos¬ 
tile Indians. Later he took up engineering and railroad 
building, at which he worked up to the time of the Civil 
War, when he enlisted in the service of the Confed¬ 
eracy, and fought continuously from April, 1861, to 1865. 
Colonel Pickett was one of the, charter members of the 
Society of American Engineers, and before his death— 
after sixty.-four years—was probably the only charter 
member living. 
After the close of the Civil War, Colonel Pickett en¬ 
gaged in railroad building in Tennessee and Kentucky 
from 1867 to 1873. In 1876 he set out for a long trip to 
the west, and was on the Missouri River when the hostile 
Sioux began to come, in, after the Custer fight and the 
destruction of the old Seventh Cavalry. 
The story of Colonel Pickett’s hunting adventures from 
1876 to 1883 is recorded in the Boone and Crockett Club’s 
volume entitled “Hunting at High Altitudes.” Colonel 
Picket was without doubt the greatest grizzly bear hunter 
that ever lived. He carried on many experiments in the 
use of the hunting rifle, and these experiments, published 
in Forest and Stream and elsewhere, were of great 
service to the big game hunters of that day. 
In the year 1883 Colonel Pickett took up a ranch on 
the Gray Bull river, in Wyoming, where he devoted him¬ 
self to the breeding of thoroughbred Hereford cattle. It 
was during his life on this ranch that he performed the 
extraordinary feat of bear killing which led to the 
naming of Four Bear creek and postoffice. 
He remained on the Gray Bull until 1904, when he re¬ 
turned to Kentucky and took up his home in Lexington. 
During his residence in Wyoming he, served for some 
time in the state legislature, and there and elsewhere did 
much to arouse public sentiment in favor of game con¬ 
servation. He had been a member of the Boone and 
Crockett Club since its establishment, and years ago was 
elected to honorary membership, a distinction received 
by few other men. 
Colonel Pickett was a brave, soldier, a master of his 
profession, an ardent sportsman, and a delightful com¬ 
panion. Pie was of the best type of the old-time southern 
gentlemen. 
