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George Bird Grinnell
George Bird Grinnell 1849-1938 was an American anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer. He attended school in John James Audubon's mansion in Ossining, New York, where he developed a love for birds at an early age. Grinnell was also an advocate for environmental protection. He was editor of a weekly magazine for sportsman and naturalists called Forest and Stream, and used it to help him channel the dissatisfaction of outdoorsman with disappearing habitats and dwindling game populations into a fight to conserve natural resources. He advocated a game warden system to be financed by small fees from all hunters in order to ensure effective enforcement of game laws. His revolutionary regulation of hunting activity on the state level with financial support from the hunters themselves became a cornerstone for game management.
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