top all spring shooting.

The prairie chicken must have a ten-year close season, immediately.

Next time, her legislature will pass the automatic gun bill that
failed last year only because the session closed too soon for its
consideration.

Oklahoma is wise in giving long protection to her quail, and "wild
pigeon," and such protection should be made equally effective in the
case of the dove. She is wise in rigidly enforcing her law against the
exportation of game.

The Wichita National Bison herd, near Cache, now contains forty head of
bison, all in good condition. The nucleus herd consisted of fifteen head
presented by the New York Zoological Society in 1907.

OREGON:

The results of the efforts that have been made by Oregon to provide
special laws for each individual shooter are painful to contemplate.
Like North Carolina, Oregon has attempted the impossible task of
pleasing everybody, and at the same time protecting her wild life. The
two propositions can be blended together about as easily as asphalt and
water. The individual shooter desires laws that will permit him to
shoot--_when_ he pleases, _where_ he pleases, and _what_ he pleases! If
you meet those conditions all over a great state, then it is time to bid
farewell to the game; for it surely is doomed.

No, decidedly no! Do not attempt to pass game laws that will "please
everybody." The more the game-hogs are _displeased_, the better for the
game! The game-hogs form a very small and very insignificant minority of
the whole People. Why please one man at the expense of ninety-nine
others? The game of a state belongs to The People as a whole, not to the
gunners alone. The great, patient,--and sometimes sleepy,--majority has
vested rights in it, and it is for it to say how it shall and shall not
be killed. Heretofore the gunning minority has been dictating the game
laws of America, and the result is--progressive extermination.

First of all, Oregon should bury the pernicious idea of individual
and local laws.

She should enact a concise, clearly cut, and thoroughly effective
code of wild life laws, just as New York did last winter.

Her game seasons should be uniform in application, all over the
state.

Every species of bird, mammal or fish that is threatened with
extermination should be given a close season of from five to ten
years.

It is now time to protect the white goose and brant. Squirrels,
band-tailed pigeons