The Trump administration hasproposed a new regulationon protecting migratory birds that is a drastic pullback from policies in force for the past 100 years. The draft rule isopen for public comment through March 19. In 1916, amid the chaos of World War I, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson and King George V of Great Britain signed theMigratory Bird Treaty. TheMigratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA)wrote the treaty into U.S. law two years later.