JULY, 1917 
331 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Some 
New Bird 
Sanctuaries 
M R. HENRY OLDYS, of Silver 
Springs, Maryland, prints each 
month for the Audubon Society 
of the District of Columbia a leaf¬ 
let full of interest to bird-lovers. Mr. 
Oldys calls the leaflet Current Items of 
Interest. In its issue for May 2 he notes 
a number of new bird refuges established 
at various places. 
At Omaha, Nebraska, is a new five hun¬ 
dred-acre bird sanctuary which was dedi¬ 
cated last Summer by the presentation of 
Percy Mackayes’ bird masque “Sanctuary.” 
At Radford, Virginia, steps are being 
taken to make a bird sancutary of the 
grounds of the state normal school. Among 
the shrubs and trees recently planted to 
furnish food, shelter, and nesting sites for 
birds are crab-apple, dogwood, black gum, 
cedar, service-berry, beech, black haw, 
thornberry, wild rose, hackberry, sumac, 
elder, and native and Russian mulberries. 
In British Columbia, Bare island, in 
Haro strait (which separates Vancouver 
island from the mainland) is the breeding 
home of a large colony of gulls, guille¬ 
mots, cormorants and puffins, and harbors 
many geese during Autumn and Winter. 
It has recently been constituted a bird 
sanctuary and the Provincial Museum at 
Victoria, an active Canadian agent for bird 
protection, has been made its legal 
guardian. 
A movement is on foot to make a na¬ 
tional park of the sand dunes along the 
southern shore of Lake Michigan, which 
are frequented by large numbers of birds 
that would thus receive thorough protec¬ 
tion. 
Illinois and Utah are undertaking to es¬ 
tablish a largely increased number of bird 
and game sanctuaries within their respec¬ 
tive boundaries. The Illinois plan is to 
lease for the nominal sum of one dollar 
apiece a hundred tracts of i,ooo to 5,000 
acres each, plant and leave standing vari¬ 
ous kinds of grain on five acres of each 
tract and construct brush-heap shelters 
with gravel and sand inside. Utah pro¬ 
poses to set aside in all 250,000 to 350,000 
acres and maintain in every county of the 
state two sanctuaries—one for birds only 
and one for upland birds, game birds and 
mammals. 
In Connecticut, the Hartford Bird-Study 
Club has established a 2,500-acre bird sanc¬ 
tuary on and near Cedar Mountain, south 
of Hartford, which is to be thoroughly 
equipped with bird boxes, shelters, feeding- 
stands, bathing pools and other essential 
appurtenances. 
Mr. Charles M. Ams has recently placed 
his large farm near Amston, Connecticut, 
at the disposal of the National Association 
of Audubon Societies for experimental 
purposes looking to the development of an 
ideal bird sanctuary. Mr. Ams will bear 
the entire expense of equipment, which is 
in charge of Rev. Herbert K. Job. 
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