A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON A FISH CULTURAL POLICY 

 FOR THE PALISADES INTERSTATE PARK.* 



By Chas. C. Adams, T. L. Hankinson, and 

 W. C. Kendall. 



1. Introductory Note. 



The Palisades Interstate Park is located on the west shore of 

 the Hudson River, and extends northward, as a narrow strip 

 along the famous Palisades to south of West Point, where it 

 broadens out in the Bear Mountain and Harriman Park sections, 

 and extends westward about fourteen miles to the Ramapo River 

 near Tuxedo. There are about 35,000 acres in the Park. It is 

 under the supervision of Commissioners, of whom Mr. George 

 W. Perkins is the President, appointed by the States of New 

 York and New Jersey. For two seasons the Department of 

 Forest Zoology of The New York State College of Forestry, at 

 Syracuse, has been conducting an ecological survey of the Park. 

 This work has been in direct charge of Mr. Edward F. Brown, 

 Manager of the Camp Department in behalf of the Park, and of 

 the senior author of this paper in behalf of the College. The 

 United States Bureau of Fisheries has co-operated in this survey 

 during the past season. The present paper is the result of a study 

 of one phase of this survey, other lines of work under way being 

 investigations of the birds, water bloom, mosquito control by 

 fishes (in co-operation with the Bureau of Fisheries) and leech 

 control. 



This is a wild forest park largely in the mountainous Hudson 

 Highlands, with many lakes and ponds and a few fine streams. 

 It is the largest camping park in the world, with facilities for 

 70,000 campers. Last season (1918) with smaller equipment, 

 there were about 50,000 campers who averaged ten days in the 

 Park. The fish cultural problems of such a Park are thus not 

 those of the usual sort. 



* Investigations conducted by the Department of Forest Zoology, of 

 The New York State College of Forestry, at Syracuse, in co-operation with 

 the Commissioners of the Palisades Interstate Park, and with the assistance 

 of the United States Bureau of Fisheries. 



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