. The continent we live on. Physical geography; Natural history. ^rxf^''^v^^':'!^''?-'''^~. The Lake Placid area in northern New York. This is a land of numerous lakes, left mostly by the bulldozing action of the last great icecap. and the wonderful changes that have followed its "; It is for this reason also that the northern areas of the province have such a strangely agglomerate fauna. As you roam about this country today the wildlife is more notable for its profusion than its variety—at least at first sight. There is said to be more game per acre in Pennsylvania than in a
. The continent we live on. Physical geography; Natural history. ^rxf^''^v^^':'!^''?-'''^~. The Lake Placid area in northern New York. This is a land of numerous lakes, left mostly by the bulldozing action of the last great icecap. and the wonderful changes that have followed its "; It is for this reason also that the northern areas of the province have such a strangely agglomerate fauna. As you roam about this country today the wildlife is more notable for its profusion than its variety—at least at first sight. There is said to be more game per acre in Pennsylvania than in any other state in the union, and despite Appalachia's almost fungoid growth of farmland, industry, and towns with their sprawling suburbs, there is no doubt that some mammals and many birds and amphibians appear to thrive in the new conditions. Deer swarm literally everywhere, even wandering into suburban areas. On a main highway not more than twenty miles from New York City, I once witnessed a game warden count 127 head in one herd grazing peaceably by the roadside while cars roared by. There are raccoons that beg for scraps on a restaurant veranda overlooking Manhattan, and the police in Harlem have orders to eliminate both raccoons and opossums that occasionally turn over trash cans in the city streets. A pair of red foxes were found breeding in Central Park, there are wild mink in Van Cortlandt Park, owls were discovered in the towers of the American Museum of Natural History, and peregrine falcons have nested on more than one famous midtowm New York hotel and have molested the pigeons in Wall Street. Wherever you drive in Appaladiia you will see fat ground- hogs chumbling away on grass stems at the very edge of the blacktop roads, skunks wandering blissfully about, and cottontail rabbits bounding in and out of hedgerows. Cats bring moles and shrews to your doorstep on Long Island, and there are gray squirrels everywhere, and chipmunks toting nuts around many houses. I ha
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