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Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
GrorGr Brrp GRINNELL, President, 
346 Broadway, New York. 
Cuarwes B. Reyno tps, Secretary. 
346 Broadway, New York. 
Louis DEAN Sperr, Treasurer. 
346 Broadway, New York. 




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THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
_will be to studiously promote a healthful interest 
in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate a refined 
taste for natural objects. 
—Forest AND StreEAM, Aug. 14, 1873. 

GOOD WORK. 
Ir is gratifying to learn that one of the most 
persistent game law breakers in the Adirondacks 
has been arrested by the Chief Game Protector’s 
assistants, and with him. several employees and 
patrons. Whether or not these persons are pun- 
ished as they deserve, the moral effect of the 
protectors’ action will be felt throughout the 
hunting region. The protectors, too, have shown 
that they are investigating all complaints received 
by the department. 
It is often rumored that some of the camp 
keepers enter into an agteement with their 
patrons whereby the latter are enabled to hunt 
deer with jacklights in summer or with dogs 
in the open season. If arrests follow, the pro- 
prietor and his employes suffer no pecuniary 
loss, as the patrons pay the fines of all hands. 
If it be true that this is the custom in certain 
localities, the persistence with which a few pro- 
prietors break the law is partially explained, as 
they have nothing to, lose, and the sympathy of 
neighbors. is often -theirs. 
Hounding, however, is practically broken up 
in the Adirondacks, and its advocates will do 
well to obey the law, which was made to insure 
a steady supply of game for all who are content 
to pursue it in a legal and sportsmanlike manner. 
The camp keepers and the guides who still favor 
the old methods are the principal ones to derive 
profit from sportsmen’s visits, and they should 
be staunch supporters of this measure to save 
the deer for those who hunt in season and law- 
fully. 
It is indeed pleasing, however, to see how many 
of the camp owners and guides have fallen into 
line and live up to the letter of the law. They 
are the best protectors, and they are doing good 
work. 

CAUSES OF BIRD DESTRUCTION. 
THE annual meeting of the National Associa- 
tion of Audubon Societies, being held this week, 
again calls attention to the good work done by 
this association—work which has been crowned 
with an unusual measure of success. Not only 
has it strongly influenced the Legislatures of 
more than forty States, but it has conducted a 
campaign of education which is day by day show- 
ing more satisfactory results. There is a con- 
stantly increasing number of persons who are 
neither sportsmen, bird lovers nor humanitarians, 
who realize the value of the services performed 
by birds for agriculture—in other words for the 
country at large. 
It is not enough, however, that we should 
merely prevent the killing of birds; we should 
do more, and should encourage and foster them, 
striving in every way actually to increase their 
numbers. We know little of the various dan- 
gers to which our birds large and small may be 
exposed, but every now and then some extra- 
ordinary destruction takes place, of one species or 
another, which is tremendously suggestive. Such 
a case occurred fifteen or twenty years ago when 
severe cold over much of the South destroyed 
the woodcock in enormous numbers, killing far 
more of them than could have been slaughtered 
by an army of sportsmen. Only a few years 
ago in Minnesota occurred a wet snowstorm one 
spring in which are believed to have perished 
literally millions of Lapland longspurs. 
Some interesting suggestions have 
been made as to methods for increasing the num- 
ber of our birds by a German, Dr. K. Guenther, 
in a book called “Darwinism and the Problems 
of Lite The author modes of 
feeding birds, but doubts whether winter’s cold 
or destruction by man are especially important 
causes for their diminution. He makes the point 
—which, indeed, has often been made before in 
regard to game birds—that it is the increasing 
clearing, cultivation and value of the land which 
drives out many species of birds from places 
where they formerly harbored. This has been 
seen jn a thousand places all over America; 
meadows are plowed up, forests are cut down, 
swamps drained, underbrush destroyed, small 
ponds and lakes turned into cultivated fields. It 
is within the memory of men who are still young 
that ducks and geese bred by hundreds of thou- 
sands in Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana, 
where now perhaps they hardly breed by hundreds. 
Among the admirable things encouraged by 
the National Association of Audubon Societies 
is the setting aside by executive order of breed- 
ing refuges, where sea birds and land birds may 
breed in safety. This is work well worth doing, 
and it may be hoped that the time is not distant 
when the Audubon Society will so far broaden 
its work as to take an active interest in the set- 
ting aside of reservations for wildfowl and game 
recently 
recommends 
birds generally, as well as for seafowl. 

AND GAME REFUGES. 
for 
BIRD 
Last week four reserves 
animals were created on the Pacific coast, by the 
order of the President. One of these, embrac- 
ing a number of rocky islands on the coast of 
Oregon, includes some great breeding places for 
seafowl. Three other reserves are in the State 
of Washington and include islands at the en- 
trance of Puget Sound, and others on the south- 
western coast of Washington near the Oregon line. 
The purpose of establishing these reserves is 
of course to protect the birds, seals and sealions 
which frequent them, and to enable them to breed 
without disturbance. The Agricultural Depart- 
ment will appoint wardens to supervise these new 
reserves and to keep off trespassers. 
new birds and 
VOL, LXIX.—No. 18. 
1 No. 346 Broadway, New York. 
Our Newfoundland correspondent, in advocat- 
ing a game preserve in that big island, is per- 
haps advance of the Govern- 
ment, though we hope not. With the present tre- 
mendous drain on the caribou, the resources of 
several years in 
the several herds is being severely taxed, and the 
Government may soon be brought face to face 
the 
supply of caribou and keeping the large income 
from visiting hunters that will dwindle if the 
A Govern- 
ment preserve will not materially affect the hunt 
ing at first, will add to its attractions gradually, 
and will be far wiser than any plan to increase 
with serious problem of maintaining the 
caribou are thinned out materially. 
the license fee or close the island to visitors for 
a term of years. 
THE five Belgian dogs, purchased in Ghent by 
the New York Police Department, arrived last 
week on the steamship Vaderland. They are now in 
charge of the officer who brought them over, and 
to the patrolmen will be 
interest. As happens 
when improved methods are proposed by ad- 
vanced thinkers, a great of ridicule 
been aimed at General Bingham because of his 
belief in the ultimate success of his plan to train 
these dogs. If they are placed in the care of 
the proper men, however, it is reasonable to be- 
lieve they will give a good account of themselves. 
R 
Wutte the clinging of the leaves has prevented 
the sportsman from obtaining many a fair shot 
at flying or running game so far, this autumn, he 
can console himself for his dearth of game with 
is indeed fortunate to be 
their work as aids 
watched with generally 
deal has 
the thought that he 
abroad amid the beauties of the present foliage. 
Gorgeous colors run riot everywhere. East and 
West the and our 
pondents agree that seldom has the foliage 
reports are similar, corres- 
in 
autumn been more beautiful. 
td 
In many places in the East it is reported that 
the nut crop is a failure this fall, and that such 
game as depends largely on this food will be 
likely to suffer should the winter be a severe 
one. Acorns seem fairly abundant, and these the 
squirrels are storing away, but not all nuts have 
matured, for the cold spring and frequent rains 
during the summer kept some mast from matur- 
me 
ing. . 
ANOTHER chapter on the passing of the great 
Creedmoor rifle range has been written. Gov- 
ernor Hughes has appointed a board consisting 
of National Guard offiers to ascertain whether 
another State range can be established 
vicinity of New York city. 
Ld 
Tue storm along the coast of New Brunswick 
in the 
early this week will probably give the moose hun- 
ters a tracking snow and better opportunities to 
bag the one bull allowed by law. 

