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Scope and Contents Volume 9 concerns Hornaday’s campaign throughout the 1920s for reductions in both bag limits and open seasons on waterfowl. Dubbed the “Bag Limit War” by Hornaday, the campaign followed upon the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 and Hornaday’s appointment to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Advisory Board. Although the federal government had imposed a bag limit in 1918, Hornaday felt the limit was too high, and in 1923, he proposed to the Board a fifty percent reduction in both...