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February, 1918 
FOREST AND STREAM 
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 S. DAGGETT, Museum of Science, Los Angeles, Cal. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
C. HART MERRIAM, 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 
Although Charles Hallock wrote and compiled a num¬ 
ber of useful and excellent books, his just claim to fame 
rests on the fact that he had the genius to conceive the 
idea of Forest and Stream, the personality to interest 
in it the best men in the country and the means to es¬ 
tablish and carry it on. For what he then did, sport and 
conservation owe to him and to his memory a debt that 
could never be paid, and we who are interested in these 
kindred subjects appreciate the weight of that obliga¬ 
tion. Hallock must always be considered one of the 
founders of the science of conservation in America. 
As the mature and experienced man differs from the 
tottering babe of forty years earlier, so the Forest and 
Stream of later years differs from the bantling which 
first tried its wings in 1873. Yet Charles Hallock had 
marked out the course upon the chart, and when the 
founder of Forest and Stream ceased to direct the 
helm, others took up the work and steered the ship on 
her designated way. < : 
All honor to Charles Hallock for the work he did! 
Let his name be long remembered! 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
studiously promote a healthful interest in outdoor recrea¬ 
tion, and a refined taste for natural objects. Aug. 14, 1873 
CHARLES HALLOCK 
^ HARLES HALLOCK is dead, in the eighty-fourth 
^ year of his age. 
His long life spanned the period during which sport 
with the gun and the rod in America had its rise and 
chief growth. Hallock was a young man when Frank 
Forester flourished and was putting on paper the stirring 
words which have had so great an influence on sport in 
America. It was Forester who first and in a tentative 
way began to touch on natural history in connection with 
sport, for in some of his books he gave descriptions of 
the birds and animals of whose pursuit he wrote. 
This may have suggested to Hallock the still closer 
connection of these two fascinating pursuits—sport and 
nature study—and may have given birth in his brain to 
the idea which culminated in the establishment of Forest 
and Stream. This idea came near to being a stroke of 
genius, and when Llallock had the wisdom to buttress the 
idea by enlisting for his project the enthusiastic support 
of the most eminent naturalists of the day, he assured 
the success of his venture. His wide acquaintance en¬ 
abled him to interest also the best sportsmen of that 
time, many of whom wrote excellently well, and wholly 
from love of their favorite recreation. So, naturalists, 
literary men and sportsmen alike wrote for the new 
paper from enthusiasm and with no idea of reward other 
than the pleasure they had in reading the contributions 
of their fellows. 
Thus Forest and Stream at once became the medium 
of communication between the best sportsmen and the 
best naturalists and was of great help to both groups. 
The sportsmen told of the real side of nature and the 
scientific men of its technical side, and what each group 
had to say to the other was keenly interesting. 
The men associated with the founding of the new 
paper used to talk much about the travail endured by 
Hallock before the title Forest and Stream was at 
last evolved, but once chosen, the name struck the popu¬ 
lar fancy and gave the paper the prestige that it holds. 
THE AMERICAN GAME PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION 
YJT/ITH this issue there is started a new department 
" of this publication, edited by the American Game 
Protective Association. While most of our readers 
doubtless know this organization, a word regarding its 
history and activities is fitting. 
The Association is the sportsmen’s national organiza¬ 
tion, having affiliated with it thirty-eight state sports¬ 
men’s associations, with a combined membership in excess 
of 250,000. 
For more than six years now the Association has been 
conducting a vigorous national campaign for more game. 
It has co-ordinated the efforts of the country’s sports¬ 
men to that end with a high degree of efficiency. Its 
first efforts were largely concerned with the federal 
law for the protection of migratory birds, a campaign 
that led to a successful conclusion. Its activities have 
since been extended to the successful movement for the 
treaty whereby birds that migrate between this country 
and Canada are given adequate protection. The setting 
aside of Mt. McKinley Park as a game refuge was an¬ 
other activity in which it joined with other well-known 
sportsmen’s organizations. 
Aid has been given most of the states of the Union, in 
co-operation with state officials, along the following 
lines: 1. In securing adequate game laws. 2. In ef¬ 
fecting efficient enforcement of those laws. 
The Association has been particularly active in stim¬ 
ulating game breeding and preserving and has published 
authoritative books and pamphlets on this subject re¬ 
lating to quail, mallard and wood ducks, pheasants and 
Virginia deer. 
Very recently it secured the establishment of an ex¬ 
perimental game farm at Cornell University, Ithaca, 
New York, by act of legislature. Game breeding and 
the conservation of wild life will be taught at Cornell 
in regular courses. 
This constitutes a brief outline of the Association’s 
work. Readers of this magazine will be enabled to fol¬ 
low it in detail from now on through this department. 
Many sportsmen in sympathy with this sort of work 
wish to aid it but end by doing nothing, because they do 
not know just how to set about joining the Association. 
Such as these will no longer be able to plead a valid 
excuse. A plan whereby each may do his bit has been 
evolved. It is explained thoroughly in the advertising 
section of this issue. 
