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Yellowstone Park shows what may be expected 

 when other mountain forests are properly protected 

 by law and properly guarded. Some of those areas 

 have been so denuded of surface vegetation by 

 overgrazing that the ground-breeding birds, includ- 

 ing grouse and quail, and many mammals, including 

 deer, have been exterminated or driven away. . . . 

 In cases where natural conditions have been re- 

 stored for a few years, vegetation has again carpeted 

 the ground, birds and deer are coming back, and 

 hundreds of persons, especially from the immediate 

 neighborhood, come each summer to enjoy the 

 privilege of camping. Some at least of the forest 

 reserves should afford perpetual protection to the 

 native fauna and flora, safe havens of refuge to our 

 rapidly diminishing wild animals of the larger kinds, 

 and free-camping grounds for the ever-increasing 

 numbers of men and women who have learned to 

 find rest, health and recreation in the splendid 

 forests and flower-clad meadows of our mountains. 

 The forest reserves should be set apart forever for 

 the use and benefit of our people as a whole, and 

 not sacrificed to the short-sighted greed of a few.'* 

 The enlargement of our sympathies is also well 

 reflected in the many societies that aim to lessen 

 cruelty to animals. This movement is an outgrowth 

 of the rapidly growing feeling of altruism — the 

 interest in others — which, in the religious sphere, 

 has ripened into the missionary spirit and into 

 toleration. The prevention of cruelty to animals is 

 of more consequence to man than to the animals. 

 They suffer less than we. Perhaps the movement 



