The 
The 
Louisiana 
Gulf 
Coast Club 
M A.NY weapons and methods 
have been used in the long 
campaign for conservation 
of game and wild fowl in America. 
Law, politics, advertising and pub¬ 
lic sentiment—these and other 
agenices have been employed in 
the protection of wild life from ex¬ 
ploitation and devastation. It remains 
for Edward Avery Mcllhenny, of Louis¬ 
iana, the pioneer conservationist, to 
come forward with the newest and most 
revolutionary means of advancing the 
cause of game conservation. Mr. Mcll¬ 
henny is adopting—and thoughtless 
sportsmen may shudder at the notion— 
a great fishing and hunting club as his 
weapon with which to fight the battle 
of conservation. He is preparing to 
form the Louisiana Gulf Coast Club, in 
a territory of 160 square miles in south¬ 
west Louisiana. 
But the object of a fish and game 
club is to kill game, you say? True, 
and Mr. Mellhenny’s idea is therefore 
in the nature of paradox. But, being a 
Photo © Underwood & Underwood 
EDWARD AVERY MclLHENNY 
scientist, he can demonstrate beyond 
dispute that life itself is a paradox, and 
that his club idea is therefore as logical 
as life. The story is a long one, albeit 
of intense interest to every true lover 
of game in the United States. 
Some time ago, Mr. Mcllhenny ac¬ 
quired a tract of 100,000 acres of valu¬ 
able farming and grazing land on the 
southwest gulf coast of Louisiana. The 
tract is in the heart of the winter 
resting grounds of the American wild 
fowl. The land is extremely fertile, 
comprised of old alluvial soil from the 
prehistoric flow of the Mississippi. It 
is a section that could be developed 
agriculturally, but if it should be put 
under cultivation, the last great open 
haunt for birds and game would be lost. 
Winter Home 
of 
Wild Fowl 
The McTlhennys live at Avery 
Island, La., about 125 miles south¬ 
west of New Orleans, in the Bayou 
Teche region several miles from the 
gulf coast. Years ago Mr. Mcll¬ 
henny gave his attention to the 
problem of game conservation. He 
saw the supply of wild ducks, geese 
and other game birds in the United 
States growing smaller year by year 
and realized that industry and intensive 
farming were cutting down the terri¬ 
tories in which the birds used to winter. 
He went to work at once to stem the 
tide of destruction. Prodigal of his 
own time and his own means, he has 
since that day been instrumental in 
creating for the State of Louisiana the 
great Rockefeller Game Refuge, of 88,- 
000 acres; the Sage Foundation, of 78,- 
000 acres; the Louisiana State Wild 
Life Refuge, and the Rainey-Mcllhenny 
Refuge of 56,000 acres. It was he who 
first interested the Rockefeller, Sage 
and Rainey families in contributing to 
the cause of wild life conservation. 
TEAL, WIDGEON, MALLARD. WOOD DUCK, FEEDING IN SAFETY, FREE ^ROM MOLESTATION. WILD FOWL NEED THE SHELTER 
AFFORDED BY SANCTUARIES. IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY BE SAFE FROM THE LAWBREAKER. THESE RE1LGES SHOULD . 
SCATTERED THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. NOT MERELY CONCENTRATED IN ONE LOCALIT\, IN ORDER 1 HA T THE rULLNE^S 
OF THE WORD “CONSERVATION” MAY BE REALIZED. 
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