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and right to bring the desired preserve into ex- 

 istence. The law referred to exjjressly clothes 

 the President of the United States with power 

 to preserve any monumental feature of nature 

 which it clearly is the dutj- of the state to pre- 

 serve for all time from the hands of the spoilers. 

 Already several "national monuments" have 

 been preserved by executive order, of course 

 with the previous concurrence of a number of 

 high departmental officers who by law are em- 

 powered to sit in judgment on all such pro- 

 posals. 



With the enthusiastic approval and assistance 

 of Representative William E. Humphrey, of 

 Seattle, Dr. Palmer set in motion the machinery 

 necessary to the carrying of the matter before 

 the President in proper form, and kept it going, 

 with the result that on March 3, President 

 Roosevelt affixed his signature to the document 

 that closed the circuit. 



Thus was created the Mount Olympus Na- 

 tional ]\Ionument, preserving forever 600,000 

 acres of magnificent mountains, valleys, glaciers, 

 streams and forests, and all tlie wild creatures 

 living therein and thereon. The people of the 

 state of Washington have good reason to rejoice 

 in the fact that their most highly-prized scenic 

 wonderland, and the last survivors of the wapiti 



in that state, are now preserved for all coming 

 time. At the same time, we congratulate Dr. 

 Palmer on the brilliant success of his initiative. 



THE SUPERIOR N.\TIONAL GAME AND FOREST 

 PRESERVE. 



The people of Minnesota long have desired 

 that a certain great tract of wilderness in the 

 extreme northern portion of that state, now well 

 stocked with moose and deer, should be estab- 

 lished as a game and forest preserve. Unfortu- 

 nately, however, the national government could 

 go no farther than to withdraw the lands (and 

 waters) from entry, and declare it a forest re- 

 serve. At the right moment, some bright genius 

 proposed that the national government should 

 by executive order create a "forest reserve," 

 and then that the legislature of Minnesota 

 should pass an act providing that every national 

 forest of that state should also be regarded as a 

 state gajne preserve! 



Both those things were done, — almost as soon 

 as said ! Mr. Carlos Avery, the Executive Agent 

 of the Board of Game and Fish Commissioners 

 of Minnesota is entitled to great credit for the 

 action of his state, and we have to thank Mr. 

 Gifford Pinchot and President Roosevelt for the 

 executive action that represented the first half 

 of the effort. 



NATIONAL BIRD REFUGES, ESTABLISHED 1903-1908. 



