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AUTHOR OF DOLLARS AND SENSE, STORM OVER THE CON- STITUTION, ETC.

The ostrich that :\tlcks its head in the sand is no blinder than _american sportsmen. With evid- ence on every hand that several species ol’ Wild Ducks are already down to the point of inuninent extermination. and that other species are headed in the same direction. sportsmen continue to oppose the one remedy that st‘ll can save both ducks and duck. shoctlllo-¢1I°in¢ the season until the birds regain their former num- bers. The sportsmen who oppose this

measure fall into two classes, 3 sei- fish minority that knows what is happening but cares only for its owii immediate p`easure. and an iiiith’nk'ng majority that either is misled by the first group, or lacks information altogether. sportsmen still d`scuss the d‘s-

anpearance oi' waterfowl as they did six years, ten years. twenty yrnrs ago-blaming everythinl' and ci-erybody but themselves. Calling iiiciiiselves r:on.servati'onis:=., they gather in national convent‘ons and rlinrgze the d’sapp2arance of water- fowl to everything from polar bears to i\`ligators_ Ducks. they say. are piiiqi by drainage. drouih, botulism, nikali. oil pollution. crows. sea gulls. foxes. Indians. Mex'cans and niuskrats. 'But is ever a word said about the deadly barrage poured from mililnns of s li o t it u n s in tho liands oi' inll`ion of hunters ---ii. 3.000 mile gauntlet of shct. and slicll. ablaze from September to Christmas along every lake and stream from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico? Not a syllable, The subject Ls tabu.

To the sportsmen, anybody who

mentions the shotgun as a. cause of waterfowl decimation proves himse'f to be a sentimentalist, tot.ali_v lacking in judgment and devoid of good breeding. The into Dr. Wm. T. Hornaclay, greatest defender of waterfowl, and the most unerrlng prophet America has ever produced. was systematic- ally excluded'from the porgrams of national conservat’on gatherings for the last fifteen years of his life. He never would keep quiet about unpleasant truths. A‘ways, a few years after he began to advoc- ate them, the remedies he proposed were adopted. But those who at first resisted never could forgive him for being right, and the belat- ed remedy invariably came too late ~a.s the closed season now threatens to do!

EMPTY OR. FULL SANCTUARIES '.’

If waterfowl are not to disappear from the continent oi' North America, action must be taken along tiwo lines: . .

1. A long-range program must be

undertaken to furnish waterfowl with n. protected habitat. including breeding grounds, sanctuaries along the entire line of migrations. Mid winter feeding grounds. 2. Shooting niuft be stopped while a breeding stock is bu'lt. up.

If we establish sanctuaries witii-

out stopping shooting. we shall have 5 protected habitat with nothing to inhabit it,

li' we stop shooting without

establishing a sanctuary system. disaster wi`l follow the resumption of shooting. The United States and Canada contain too many men. too many automobiles. too many shot- zuns, to make it possible to pre- Serve waterfowl permanently with- nut. it year-round sanctuary system extensive enough to she'tcr a good Dorccntage of the breeding stock. It will lake at least ten years to

build up nn adequate syst~m of waterfowl refuges. Besides being 'iniitod to th amount of govern-

ment funds available year by year, the sanctuary program will be tied in with a generalplan of soil and water conservation which may take a. quarter of a, century to brim! into full effect. There is no mazlc by which a protected habitat for waterfowl can be established over- night. But there is a deadly mBslC. the magic of leaden pellets, by which the waterfowl still alive on this continent can vanish com- pletely within the next ten years.

THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY -

. ITS PERSONNEL

Both of the necessary steps, the

estabiishment. of sanctuaries and protection of wildlife both in and out of them, fall within the pro- vince of the United States Bureau of the Biological Survey. The President and the Secretary of Agriculture are authorized by Con- gress to decide whether, how. and to what extent migratory game birds shall be hunted. The Biologi- cal Survey. through its trained personnel. is the administrative agent of Congress and thc Presiden t .lt secures thein- formation upon which wildlife policy is based. fixes the detai`s of that policy. and carries it into ef- fect, subject to the higher will of the superior executive officers. ‘

The Biological survey at the pre-

sent time has for waterfowl pro- tection the best personnel in its history. The warden serv`c'=. though still inadequate, has b fi remade in spirit. Wardens no longer cynicauy can themselves “iluards for rich men's duck clubs." To-day the rank and file of federal wardens risk their lives in the perfonnance of duties, and the policy making ofridais at uw top enforce the law against H .idqaph Knapp. a Walter Chrysler, or the head 01' H HMG mime commission, as readily as against a swive'-gun bootleggcr.

The chief of the Biological Sur-

vey.‘ Dr. Ira N. Gabrielscn. is a ccnservationist. and a scientist, and a man oi’ tact and forcefulness. He sympathizes with the legitimate desire of sportsmen for a greater abundance cf game, and a share of it in the gamebagi but ahead of that he wants game birds and animals brought back as living creatures. He has nothing in com- mon with the “sportsmasi" who looks on wild life as his sole pos- se:sion, with all doubtsto be settled in favor of more and easier shoot- U18. and with no thought. either of the welfare oi’ game or the rights 0! non-shooters.

'In 1930 Dr. Homaday offered at

the annual meeting of the National Association oi’ Audubon Societies a resolution calling upon the As- sociation "to declare its intention to actively advocate and support" a measure for "their shortening of all state and federal open seasons on waterfowl from the present twelve or fourteen of baitlng waters or lands to entice game birds within gunshot range:" for "prevention of the use of live birds to decoy their ovm or rent. ed species to their death": etc.

Dr. Hornaday`s resolution was

howled down without being per- mitted to come to a. vote.

In 1934 Dr. Hornaday called

for a closed season: and in 1935 the National Association of Audubon Societies followed his lead. and also demanded a closed season,-

THE BIOLOGICAL SURVEY -»

ITS POLICIES

Dr. Gabrlelson and other officials

of the Biological Survey have taken a number of steps which show that they understand the plight of watert`ow‘. mid want to work ef- fectively atznlnst extcrniinntioii. Yet the steps they takc arf- nevci' riu’t" adequate to the situation ns it develops from year to year.

The lack, nriparr-ntly, is not one

of iindcrst.-.ii~'liiiiz. For instance, it is understood that ~thc-_ hunting

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regulations of 1936 were prepared by the Survey in U10 SPH118 HUG

ing submitted to the Secretary of

would cali for total closure.

closed.

cal reasons.

necessary,

For ia. brief period, and minor crisis. such a. poiicy sound. It avoids the danger

a dangerous policy. Pursued too long. inaction because of prudence

fowl as similar inaction _ resiptih

59811118 with a, crisis which is mov- intl toward 9. calamity, it

“e°€5‘H¥'Y to act first. and

public opinion catch up.

THE CIDZSIS OF 1937

The 1936 attlttu =.

cal Survey has bignofddlzlleicgggliagui the early months of 1937. Drouth conditions which were so serious in Canada and our northern prairie States during the summer or lose Pmlsfed through the mi w_nn=r. md ‘nw We Spring of 1931. while

6 VHUW of the Ohio was drench_

Ed ponds of Saskatchewan and Manitoba gained only rt iight, °°"@1`1"s Of Snow. and ‘dust swept gli? Dlfilrle litke beds of North aktha. and Minnesota. Mr- Hoses I-10yd.iiead of me game

P1‘0Wction forces in Canada, and Game Commrssloner Morick of North Dakota brought word of this con. dltion to the second North Ameri-

;1;11L\;'ild Life Conference, hejd in

- U18 in the firsit week of

March. 1937. The continued droutii, representing together with over-

on n w_.ci ovil iii. tory, would, “UC “'0Ulfl Sllpposf. make closure of the seasoii thc foiriiiost topic of

». i e s *Tlic coiilcrciicc was fiiiaiircri by

financed by gun and ammunition companies. This statement holds good despiic the marked improve- ment in the attitude oi’ these companies in the past. decade.

Even without a continuation of

the drouth. closure of the season is necessary. During the past. winter, the Biological survey made 3, _gui-_ vey of s.oi".hem concentration grounds. and report an apparent increase of ducks over the preceed- ing year aniouiit‘ng to from five to ten per cent. But the increase was irregular. Some of the rarer species

held for several months before be-

Agriculture and the President ici: signature. The reason was that al- though conditions in the spring were held to warrant an open sea- son with moderato shooting, any renewal of the drouth in Canada

The drouth was renewed. By mid-

summer one of worst drouths in history »liad developed. The Can- adian government issued the most alarming reports concerning water- fowl that ever came out of Ot- tawa. ln short. the conditions were fulfilled which called for a closed season. But. the season was not

There is a. puzzling inconsistency between thc Biological SurveY'S knowledge of the crisis (plus a warm interest in conservation) on the one hand. and the ineffective- ness of its policies on the other. It is easy to surmise that in 1936 thc Survey might have been ready to act but was rc_=t.i'a.lned by Political considerations growing out of the presidential election. Inquiry faiLS to support this surmise, however; Secretary Wallace and Presdent Rlooseicl. are both strong con- servationists. The statement has been iiiadc in Washington that every recoinlilendation ninrlo by Chief Gabr`elson has gone into effect, and thrit no recommenda- tion has been withhc`d for politi-

If. tlien. tlir- Clilcf of llic Survey

kiicw that the season ought to have been closed in 1936. and no political barriers prevented, what did hinder action? Possibly it was due to A trait which Dr. Gabriel- son appear.; to share with Presid- ent. Roosevelt. a sense of timing in relation to public opinion. The Prosident and Dr. Gabrielson may not have wished to 'act drastically In advance cf a general under- sti1nd'ng tliiit. drast‘c amlon was

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have continued to decline de- spite the fact that i.licrc was no lawful shooting of ilicm in 1936. Any competent studcirt knows that such a condition calls for c'osing the season, unless the rarer species are to be allowed to disappear. The Situation reveals clcnrly tiic failure of the "Seled3`ve bug" upon the

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