Our Vanishing Wild Life eBook

William Temple Hornaday
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 632 pages of information about Our Vanishing Wild Life.

Our Vanishing Wild Life eBook

William Temple Hornaday
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 632 pages of information about Our Vanishing Wild Life.

The game preserves created in Pennsylvania up to date are as follows: 

In Clinton County 3,200 acres
In Clearfield County 3,200 acres
In Franklin County 3,200 acres
In Perry County 3,200 acres
In Westmoreland County 2,500 acres

It is the deliberate intention of the Game Commission to increase these game preserves until there is at least one in each county.

It is the policy of the Commission to clear out of the game sanctuaries all the mammals and birds that destroy wild life, such as foxes, mink, weasels, skunks and destructive hawks and owls.  This is accomplished partly by buying old horses, killing them in the preserves and poisoning them thoroughly with strychnine.

Each preserve now contains a nucleus herd of white-tailed deer, some of them imported from northern Michigan.  Ruffed grouse are breeding rapidly, and in the Clearfield County Preserve there are said to be at least three thousand.  The Game Commission considers it a patriotic duty to preserve the wild turkey, ruffed grouse and quail, rather than have those species replaced at great expense by species imported from the old world.  In their work for the protection, preservation and increase of the game of Pennsylvania—­partly for the purpose of providing legitimate hunting for the mechanic as well as the millionaire,—­the State Game Commissioners are putting a great amount of thought and labor, and whenever their efforts are criticized, their motives impugned or their honesty questioned by men who are not worthy to unlace their shoes, it makes me tired and angry.

NEW YORK: 

THE ADIRONDACK STATE PARK.—­With wise and commendable forethought, the state of New York has preserved in the Adirondack wilderness, familiarly known as “the North Woods,” a magnificent forest domain forever dedicated to campers, outdoorsmen and hunters.  At present (1912) it contains 2,031 square miles (1,300,000 acres) of forest-clad hills, valleys and mountains, adorned by countless lakes and streams.  By some persons it has been believed that in the State’s forests the cutting and sale of large trees would be justifiable business, and agreeable to the public; but it has been demonstrated that this is not the case.  The people of the state firmly object to the havoc that is unavoidably wrought by logging operations in beautiful forests.  The state does not yet need any of the money that could be derived from such operations.  The chief anxiety of the public is that hereafter forest fires shall be prevented, no matter what fire protection may cost!  The burning of coal on any railway operated through the Adirondacks should be made a penal offense.

MONTANA: 

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