“I am dreading the days to come soon now when many beautiful birds will be dying in our back yard,” wrote a Milwaukee woman. “This is a pitiful, heartbreaking experience . . . It is, moreover, frustrating and exasperating, for it evidently does not serve the purpose this slaughter was intended to serve . . . Taking a long look, can you save trees without also saving birds? Do they not, in the economy of nature, save each other? Isn’t it possible to help the balance of nature without destroying it?”
