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FOREST AND STREAM JANUARY, 1918 
FOREST and STREAM 
FORTY-SEVENTH YEAR 
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
GOVERNING BOARD: 
GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, New York, N. Y. 
CARL E. AKELEY, American Museum of Natural History, New York 
FRANK 8 . DAGGETT, Museum of Science, Los Angeles, Cal. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
C. HART HERRIAM, Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 
WILFRED H. OSGOOD, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Ill. 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES SHELDON, Washington, D. C. 
GEORGE SHIRAS, 3rd, Washington, D. C. 
WILLIAM BRUETTE, Editor 
Nine East Fortieth Street, New York City 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest yin outdoor recrea¬ 
tion, and a refined taste for natural objects. Aug. 14, 1873 
PROGRESS OF THE AUDUEON SOCIETY 
HE European war has so stimulated a study of the 
economic uses of birds that the National Asso¬ 
ciation of Audubon Societies was able to report at its 
annual meeting that its sustaining membership had in¬ 
creased thirty-three and a third per cent, during the last 
year. The growth of the Society and the generous finan¬ 
cial support which it has received encouraged its Secre¬ 
tary, Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, to suggest a campaign for 
the raising of funds with which to build a permanent 
headquarters for the Association in this city. 
“At the close of our year,” to quote from Mr. Pear¬ 
son’s report, “it is with much pleasure we announce that 
in not a single line of our endeavors has it been neces¬ 
sary for 11s to curtail during the last twelve months. 
This fact demonstrates clearly the seriousness with which 
the supporters of the Audubon Movement regard the 
value of saving the wild life of the country.” 
The National Association of Audubon Societies with 
which are affiliated 134 organizations throughout the 
U. S. has been devoting special attention to the protec¬ 
tion of birds which help conserve crops by destroying 
weed seeds, rodent pests and injurious insects. This, in 
no small measure, is regarded as the reason for the move¬ 
ment being joined by so many prominent and influential 
persons who have been impressed by this service in be¬ 
half of the American people. 
“The development of our organization,” says Mr. 
Pearson, “has now reached such a phase that our ac¬ 
tivities should be focused in a national headquarters, a 
great clearing house for the exchange of ideas. 
“Such a building as some of us have longed for and 
dreamed of for years should contain abundant office 
space and storage room. It should have rooms for the 
permanent exhibition of bird-houses, feeding devices and 
bird-attracting apparatus.” 
It is suggested also that a great library on conserva¬ 
tion be founded; tliat there be established a museum 
where all the birds of the world used for the millinery 
trade could be shown; and that there also be displays 
of shrubs and trees that produce fruits and berries which 
may be planted in sanctuaries or about homes to provide 
food for birds. 
A significant indication of the activity of the Associa¬ 
tion in conservation the last year is given by the reports 
of the wardens. In the twelve months just closed forty- 
six wardens were employed by the Association and pa¬ 
trol boats were provided for three additional Govern¬ 
ment wardens. During the year the Association put in 
commission a new warden patrol boat on Klamath Lake, 
Oregon, while another such craft to be paid for by the 
income of the Mary Dutcher Memorial Fund is being 
built for work on the Pelican Island Reservation, 
Florida. 
An important feature of the Association’s work is the 
guarding of colonies of aquatic fowl. Reports of the 
wardens of rookeries show that in the aggregate some¬ 
thing over 1,043,000 water-birds were bred in the various 
protected sanctuaries. This estimate covers forty species 
including gulls, skimmers, terns, egrets, herons, ibises, 
pelicans, and a few quillemots, eider ducks, Florida 
ducks, limpkins, and puffins. Innumerable small birds 
and various migratory shore-birds also found protection 
in these guarded areas. 
Coordination of the work of the National Association 
and the state and local endeavors is bringing splendid 
results in bird protection. Some places recently set aside 
for the welcoming of the feathered hosts are the Julia 
Hanson Bird Reservation at Fort Meyers, in Florida, 
while the entire community at Winter Park in that State 
has been made an avine haven. Indiana reports that a 
sanctuary has been established near Muncie and also 
that a new State Park has been created and designated, 
McCormick’s Creek Canyon Bird Reservation. The 
Beaver Field and Audubon Club Jias recently established 
a twenty-five acre sanctuary at Beaver, Pennsylvania. 
GOOD WORK FOR THE COUNTRY 
N these days, when we talk so much about the scarcity 
of food and the high prices that it brings, especial 
emphasis is laid on the threatened shortage of meat. 
Years ago a large proportion of the flesh food for Amer¬ 
ica and Europe was raised on the western plains, but of 
recent years the old cattle and sheep ranges have greatly 
contracted, and over many of them the sturdy farmer 
now rides his bucking plough. As the cattle and sheep 
reared on the western ranges become fewer in number, 
the depredations of carniverous animals increase rela¬ 
tively and are more severely felt. 
A single wolf, living on a range, will in a year kill 
thousands of dollars’ worth of beef, and the total de¬ 
struction by wolves and coyotes amounts to a vast sum 
annually. Cattle and sheep men have long realized the 
tremendous drain on their herds caused by these car¬ 
nivorous animals, and have endeavored in many ways 
to lessen their numbers and so reduce their depredations. 
Most states in the old range country pay a bounty on 
wolves and coyotes, and many counties and many cattle¬ 
men offer additional bounties, so that in some cases it is 
worth fifty dollars or more to kill a wolf, besides the 
added value of his hide. 
As a consequence of this interest among the western 
cattlemen continually larger appropriations have wisely 
been made for the uses of the Biological Survey, which 
includes among its divisions one devoted to the destruc¬ 
tion of injurious animals, whether they be wolves, wild¬ 
cats, prairie dogs or ground squirrels. In the western 
country a large number of men under the Biological 
Survey are at work fighting these animals in various 
ways—saving crops, saving the grass for the cattle and 
killing the larger animals which prey on livestock. This 
