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the different kinds of trees grow best and form the most 

 wood, some requiring close and some more open plant- 

 ing, some needing nurses and some not, some requiring 

 much light, while others get along well in the shade. 

 All these points, and many others connected with the 

 various forest cultures in seeding and planting forest 

 trees, which are so important for the systematic manage- 

 ment of forests and not yet settled, should be attended 

 to and by experiments determined, with the help of ten- 

 tative processes. 



IV. The Park idea would, however, be still more ap- 

 propriate if it was made subservient to another economic 

 consideration, viz., to the preservation of the game 

 within the Adirondack region. Under the present sys- 

 tem of administration pot-hunting in the Adirondacks 

 will, from year to year increase; and, unless there is set 

 apart an extended district where game may rest and 

 breed undisturbed, the nobler species of game will soon 

 be a thing of the past. It was only by declaring some 

 of her mountains (Freiberge) exempted from the incur- 

 sions of hunters and trappers that Switzerland succeeded 

 in saving the beautiful chamois from total extinction. 

 If we take similar precautions and set apart a large 

 continuous wooded tract as a park, we could establish 

 it at the same time as an asylum for the much-persecuted 

 game, in which hunting and trapping game should be 

 prohibited under the heaviest penalties. Then we 

 would not only preserve a stock of the pretty game for 

 our successors without being compelled to keep a costly 

 deer park, we would at the same time protect people 

 who visit the park for pleasure or health against the 

 sinister stray shots of the pot-hunters to which visitors 

 of the Adirondacks are now exposed at all times and in 

 all places. 



