When 2,000 sportsmen, scientists and sentimentalists, organized by Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, met in Washington three years ago for the first North American Wildlife Conference, it seemed pure fantasy to hope that they would agree on a common program. For years animal-lovers and hunters had fought each other far more vigorously than they fought for conservation of the nation's wildlife resources. Meanwhile lakes dried up, marshes were drained, forests cut over, rivers polluted, birds, beasts and fish killed off by the million.
At the Conference "Ding" Darling formed his National Wildlife Federation,...
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