American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . placed to oneanother? If they are established at the begin-ning, not less than twenty or twenty-five milesfrom each other, it seems to me that the exi-gencies of the situation would be met. It isnot our purpose, in creating them, seriouslyto interfere with the privileges of hunters ad-joining the forests where they are the contrary, all that is wished is to pre-serve the present number of the deer, or toallow them slightly to increase. The system ofgame refuges of the size indicated, would, I be-lieve, ac
American big game in its haunts; the book of the Boone and Crockett club . placed to oneanother? If they are established at the begin-ning, not less than twenty or twenty-five milesfrom each other, it seems to me that the exi-gencies of the situation would be met. It isnot our purpose, in creating them, seriouslyto interfere with the privileges of hunters ad-joining the forests where they are the contrary, all that is wished is to pre-serve the present number of the deer, or toallow them slightly to increase. The system ofgame refuges of the size indicated, would, I be-lieve, accomplish this end. In all probability, atthe beginning of the open season, the deer wouldbe distributed with a considerable degree of uni-formity throughout the reserve, outside of thegame refuges as well as within. They would go,of course, where the food and conditions suitedthem. As the hunting season opened, and thegame, in a double sense, become more lively, thedeer would naturally seek shelter where they couldfind it. Since this, with them, would be a question 434. Forest Reserves of North America In the United States something over 100,000 squaremiles of the pubHc domain has been set aside andreserved from settlement for economic vast area includes reservations of four differentkinds: First, National Forest Reserves, aggregatingsome 63,000,000 acres, for the conservation of thewater supply of the arid and semi-arid West; second,National Parks, of which there are seventeen, for thepurpose of preserving untouched places of naturalgrandeur and interest; third, State Parks, for placesof recreation and for conserving the water supply;and fourth, military wood and timber reservations, toprovide Government fuel or other timber. Most mili-tary wood reserves were originally established in con-nection with old forts. The forest reservations, as they are by far thelargest, are also much the most important of thesereserved areas. Perhaps three-quarters of the population
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