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 May, 1913 RECENT CAMPAIGN FOR TIlE CONSERVATION OF WILD LIFE 127 I,AW HERETOFORE Sale of band-tailed pigeons and wild ducks allowed. 2. Shipment of protected wild game per- mitted. 3. No civil service for fish and game wardens. 4. Propagation of wild game in captivity not provided for. 5. Use for food of birds shot destroying crops permitted. 6. Possession of plumage of wild birds permitted. 7. Bag-limit on ducks 25 a day, 50 a week. 8. Bag-limit on quail 20 a day, no weekly limit. 9. License required to hunt but not to fish. 10. No provision in law for the Fish and Game Commission carrying on educa- tional work or scientific investigation. 11. No specific appropriation for the scien- tific and educational work of the Fish and Game Commission. 12. Aliens allowed to hunt and bear fire- arms. 13. Seasons on the Railidac, Limicolae, Band-tailed Pigeon, Wood Duck, Ibis, Sea Otter. LAW AS AMENDED BY THE PRESENT LEGISLA- TURE (1913) 1. Sale of band-tailed pigeons and wild ducks prohibited (ducks may be sold during November). 2. Shipment of protected wild game pro.- hibited. 3. Civil service for fish and game wardens. 4. Propagation of wild game in captivity provided for. 5. Use for food of birds shot destroying crops prohibited. 6. Possession of plumage of wild birds prohibited for any purpose. 7. Bag-limit on ducks 15 a day, 30 a week. 8. Bag-limit on quail, 15 a day, 30 a week. 9. 10. Furthermore, no losses were registered. 11. 12. 13. License required to either hunt or fish. Provision in law that Fish and Game Commission may carry forward edu- cational work or scientific investigation as the necessity may arise. Appropriation of $5000 for carrying for- ward educational work and scientific investigation. Aliens prohibited from hunting and bearing firearms. Absolute protection accorded the Rai- lidac, Limicolae (:cept the Wilson Snipe), Band-tailed Pigeon, Wood Duck, Ibis, Sea Otter. An attempt was made to open a sea- son on robins, meadowlarks, and blackbirds, as well as to remove protection from the so-called "fish-eating birds." These attempts, however, fortunately came to nought. Two Joint Resolutions of interest to wild life conservationists were adopted. One memorializes Congress to set aside a part or all of the National Forest in California as a game preserve..The other requests the President of the United States to propose to the governments of the world the negotiation of an Inter- national Congress for the Conservation of Wild Life, to be held in San Francisco in I915. Several of these measures were the sinbject of terrific assaults from a few disaffected and misguided law-makers. Their passage was only possible through continuous and vigorous attention on the part of friends of wild life conservation within and without the legislature. Of course the changes above listed do. not represent all the improvements registered during this legislative session. They are merely those in which it may be assumed the California Associated Societies are most interested. At one time the publication of a list of those persons to whom credit is due for our series of victories was contemplated. So many friends were found, how- ever, that this is an impossibility. The success of the campaign should be credited: () to those individuals and organzations who donated money to the cause and