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the improvements have been made during the past ten 

 years. Here the traveler, upon ahghting from the train 

 of soHd PuHmans at the boundary line, is met by tally-ho 

 coaches of the most modern type, in w^hich he tours the 

 park for days over a perfectly macadamized road, 

 sprinkled daily, with hotels at convenient distances on 

 the way whose architectural beauty harmonizes with 

 their surroundings and whose management would do 

 credit to a large city. While a guest at one of these 

 hotels with the conveniences of modern life, the traveler 

 can hardly realize that he is in the very heart of the 

 Rocky Mountains until he is forcibly reminded through 

 the sudden appearance of several kinds of big game 

 within a few feet of the hotel porches. Yellowstone 

 National Park is thoroughly policed by four troops of 

 United States cavalry besides civilian scouts, regular em- 

 ployees of the Interior Department, and it is needless to 

 say that the fishes, birds, big game, and scenic beauties 

 are well protected. While seemingly alone in its 

 wonderful geyser phenomena, as a game preserve 

 Yellowstone National Park may be considered as fairly 

 typical and affords a striking example of the wonderful 

 possibilities of the other national reservations. 



Wild game and fishes have always been and are today 

 considered the property of the state in which found, but 

 the inadequate protection afforded them is often a very 

 discouraging feature to the enthusiastic fish culturist 

 and is not comparable to the protection under federal 

 control. At the present time these reserves offer far 

 better hunting and fishing than the surrounding terri- 

 tory and they are a substantial benefit to every state 

 near which they are located because they furnish a nur- 

 sery for game and fish for the continuous replenish- 

 ment of other sections. 



