The passenger pigeon was a victim of a progressive society that had not yet fully sorted out how to manage and adequately protect national and international wildlife resources. By the time America had, it was too late for the once uncommonly prolific passenger pigeon. migrated to Mexico. But the passenger pigeon's decline was easier to sort out than that. Its loss was the product of national negligence and state indifference. It wasn't that some conservationists didn't see some of this coming. They voiced concern, repeatedly. But the inability to quantify this wildly 4 mobile interstate - and occasionally international - resource gave everyone who took pigeons and squabs leeway to continue. Their defense was bolstered by the fact that neither states nor the federal government protected passenger pigeons. In the latter 19th century, most states didn't have wildlife-management agenWWW.PENNGAMENEWS.COMhttp://WWW.PENNGAMENEWS.COM