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GREA TEST NEEDS OF WILD-LIFE CA USE 395
There was!
Only one week previously, a good friend (who deelines to be named) gave us two thousand dollars, of real money, for just such emergencies.
Within thirty-six hours an entirely new fighting force had been or- ganizedandequippedforservice. Withinoneweek,thosereinforcements had made a profound impression on the defenses of the enemy, and in the endthegreatfightwaswon. Ofoursmallcampaignfundittookaway over one thousand dollars; but the victory was worth it.
With money enough,—a reasonable sum,—the birds of North America, andsomeofthesmall-mammalspeciesalso,canbesaved. Thebiggame that is hunted and killed outside the game preserves, and outside of such places as New Brunswick and the Adirondacks, can not be saved—until each species is given perpetual protection. Colorado is saving a small remnant of her mountain sheep, but Montana and Wyoming are wasting theirs, because they allow killing, and the killers are ten times too nu- merousforthesheep. Theyimaginethatbypermittingonlythekilling of rams they are saving the species; but that is an absolute fallacy, and soon it will have a fatal ending.
AVith an endowment fund of $2,000,000 (only double the price of the two old Velasquez paintings purchased recently by a gentleman of New York!) averygoodremnantofthewildlifeofNorthAmericacouldbesa^'ed.
But who will give the fund, or even a quarter of it ?
Thus far, the largest sums ever given in America for the cause of wild- life protection, so far as I know personalh% have been the following:
Albert Wilcox, to the National Association of Audubon Societies, $322,000 Mary Dutcher Fund, to the National Association of Audubon
Societies
Mrs. Russell Sage, for the purchase of Marsh Island
American Game Protective and Propagation Association, from
the manufacturers of firearms and ammunition, annually . . Charles Willis Ward and E. A. Mclllhenny, purchase of game
preserve presented to Louisiana
Mrs. Russell Sage, miscellaneous gifts to the National Audubon
Society
The American Bison Society for the Montana National Herd. . New York Zoological Society, total about
John E. Thayer, purchase of game preserve
Caroline Phelps Stokes Bird Fund, N. Y. Zoological Society. . Boone and Crockett Fund for Preservation
A Friend in Rochester
Henry C. Frick
Samuel Thorne
12,000 150,000
25,000
39,000
20,000 10,526 20,000 5,000 5.000 5,000 2,500 1.500 1 250
Of all the above, the only endowment funds yielding an annual in- come are those of the National Association of Audubon Societies and the Caroline Phelps Stokes fund of $5,000 in the treasury of the Zoological vSociety.
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