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MONRO LAKE, IN THE NEW PRESERVE CREATED BY BRITISH COLUMBIA. 

 This is the center of fine breeding grounds for Elk and Mule Deer. 



The making of this preserve is a good object 

 lesson in wild-life preservation. It shows what 

 can be accomplished by two industrious and de- 

 termined men, particularly when one of them 

 has an official connection with an institution like 

 the New York Zoological Society. This fact is 

 worthy of mention, not by any means as an 

 award of credit to Messrs. Phillips and Horna- 

 day, — for in any event, their part in the matter 

 will be promptly and thoroughly forgotten by 

 the public, — but as an encouragement to other 

 men who might, could, would or should render 

 similar service to the wild-life of America. 



A map sliowing the location of this preserve 

 is given herewith. 



MT. OLYMPUS NATIONAL MONUMENT. 



For at least six years the advocates of the 

 preservation of American wild life and forests 

 have desired that the grand mountain territory 

 around Mount Olympus, in northwestern Wash- 

 ington, sliould be established as a national for- 



est and game preserve. In addition to the pres- 

 ervation of the forests, it was greatly desired 

 that the remnant bands of Olympic wapiti (de- 

 scribed as Cervus canadensis roosevelti) should 

 be perpetuated. In Congress, two determined 

 efforts were made in behalf of the region re- 

 ferred to, but both were defeated by the enemies 

 of forests and wild life. 



By a really fine display of forethought and 

 energy in the last days of the last session of 

 Congress, and under the authority of clearly- 

 defined statute laws, the end long desired was 

 accomplished. The Olympic national forest 

 and game preserve — under another name — is 

 now an accomplished fact; and it is both a duty 

 and a pleasure to give Americans an opportun- 

 ity to award the credit for it to tlie man who 

 thought it out, and brought it about. — Dr. 

 Theodore S. Palmer, Assistant Chief of the Bio- 

 logical Survey, Department of Agriculture. 



In an auspicious moment. Dr. Pahncr thought 

 of a law under which it would be both proper 



