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of personal gain, as found in recreative shooting and pounds of wild 
meat. Concerted action with these to effect protective measures, such 
as restocking of depleted areas, cover planting, winter feeding, long 
closed seasons, will primarily accrue to the sportsmen’s benefit, as did 
the closed season on spring shooting. 
Here is a splendid opportunity for bird lovers and sportsmen to 
get together in a common cause that will benefit them mutually. But 
would it be fair to ask the sportsmen to forego their pleasures without 
compensating them in measure greater than found in the protection of 
the present game laws? Should not the bird lover, individually or col- 
lectively, lend his efforts and combine forces with the sportsmen in an 
active and constructive program that will safeguard Bob-white from its 
natural enemies, by providing for it much needed natural cover? Sup- 
pressio vert suggestio valst. 
Plan to Save the Ducks 
Audubon Society Would Make Bird Sanctuary of the 
Proposed Gulf Coast Shooting Club 
From National Assoctation of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York. 
EW YORK, Nov. 27th.—Out of the storm of protest against 
the plan of E. A. McIlhenny and his associates to establish a 
gigantic hunting club in the midst of the Louisiana Wild Life 
Sanctuaries there has evolved a definite and constructive proposition 
for saving the wild fowl of that region from the guns of the hunters and 
at the same time protecting against loss those who invested in the Louisi- 
ana Gulf Coast Club. 
This plan is brought forward by T. Gilbert Pearson, President of the 
National Association of Audubon Societies, who sees the possibilities 
for establishing one vast, solid chain of sanctuaries in the great territory 
of the Louisiana Coast where wild fowl winter. He dreams of a bird 
reservation extending from Cote Blanche Bay westward to the Mer- 
mentau River, a territory about 80 miles in length and from Io to 15 
miles in width. 
“This plan concerning which I have been in correspondence with 
Mr. Mcllhenny for some weeks,” said Mr. Pearson today, “‘contemplates 
the purchase of the 100,000 acre tract on which the Club has option, 
and adding it to the adjoining wild life sanctuaries. 
“Tt was through Mr. Mcllhenny’s efforts originally that Mrs. 
Russell Sage and the Rockefeller Foundation purchased as bird reserva- 
tions great territories in that region and Mr. Mcllhenny states that he 
was very anxious to place the remaining territory in sanctuary, but saw 
