Animals: Duck Moratorium?

"Only about half the normal number of ducks will fly south this season. This is the third consecutive disastrous breeding year. Unless we have what might be called a moratorium on wildfowl shooting in this year of crisis I am afraid the ducks will go down into extinction."

Thus last week spoke Dr. Thomas Gilbert Pearson, president of the National Association of Audubon Societies. He said reports were being wired in from all parts of the U. S. Northwest and Canada almost hourly, asking his Societies to take action. Therefore he last week proposed...

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