THE PROPOSED NEW YORK STATE 

 BISON HERD. 



At the annual meeting held in January, 1907, Pro- 

 fessor Franklin W. Hooper proposed a movement for 

 the establishment of a herd of American Bison in the 

 Adirondacks, to be owned and maintained by the State, on 

 State lands. The proposal received the immediate 

 approval of the Society, and the Executive Committee was 

 directed to take such steps as might be necessary to carry 

 the idea into effect. 



Mr. Madison Grant prepared a bill to provide the 

 necessary legislation and a fund of $20,000.00 with which 

 to fence a large area, of ten or twelve square miles, erect 

 such sheds and corrals as might be necessary, purchase 

 about 15 pure-blood bison, and transport them to the pro- 

 posed range. The bill provided that the whole under- 

 taking should be under the management of State Commis- 

 sioner of Forests, Fish and Game, Mr. John D. Whipple. 



The bill-was introduced in the Assembly by Assembly- 

 man Frank C. Hooper, of Essex, and in the Senate by 

 Senator George H. Cobb. The Assembly Committee on 

 Ways and Means promptly granted a hearing on the bill, 

 at which Professor Hooper, Dr. Hornaday and Mr. Harry 

 V. Radford appeared in support of the measure. There 

 was no opposition. On the contrary, Chairman Sherman 

 Moreland, Speaker Wadsworth, and all the members of 

 the committee were not only friendly to the measure, but 

 they facilitated its progress. 



The following are the names of the members of the 

 Ways and Means Committee of the Assembly for 1907: — 

 Sherman Moreland James T. Rogers 



Jean L. Burnett John K. Patton 



Jesse S. Phillips James K. Apgar 



Edwin A. Merritt, Jr. J. Mayhew Wainwright 

 George H. Whitney Mervin C. Stanley 



Gary H. Wood James Oliver 



Thomas J. Farrell 



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