Conspicuous National Service (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Conspicuous National Service The Gold Medal shown on the opposite page was designed for the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund as an emblem of special distinction, to be awarded for conspicuous service in the cause of wild life protection in America. Four of these medals were awarded, in 1918, to subscribers of The People's Home Journal for remarkable achievement in the Journal's great national crusade for Bird Sanctuaries, conducted through the members of its Green Meadow Club, a home organization for the study of Natural History and the extension of Wild Life knowledge. The founders of the Permanent Wild Life Fund include many of the most prominent men and women of America. Their names are given on the following page. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.