Word: conservationism
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Fortnight ago, the International Association of Game, Fish and Conservation commissioners met in Toronto, recommended that the duck shooting season be shortened this year. Because of the drought only 50% of usual number of ducklings were hatched.
Ninth oldest magazine in the U. S., forerunner of all other U. S. sporting magazines, Forest and Stream was founded in 1873 by the late Charles Hallock. It was dedicated to the conservation of wild life, induced the birth of the National Association of Audubon Societies, sponsored the National Park...
Field & Stream, 24 years younger, differs from its predecessor in that it opposes conservation measures which may be impracticable, based only on sentiment. Founders John P. Burkhard and Henry Wellington Wack sold it in. 1906 to Eltinge F. Warner, chain magazine publisher. Editor Ray Holland continues in charge of the...
Trust-busting and conservation were two prime preoccupations of President Theodore Roosevelt. At his instigation John Davison Rockefeller's Standard Oil trust was ultimately smashed to bits. At his instigation five of the Government's 21 national parks came into being. Were he alive today, he would have...
Last week the Hoover conservation policy received a severe legal jolt when Associate Justice Jennings Bailey of the District of Columbia Supreme Court ruled that Secretary Wilbur had exceeded his authority under the Act of 1920. Two oilmen, Richard D. Vedder of California and Roy C. Barton of New Mexico...