The Boone and Crockett Club 



history, so rapidly are we moving in this twentieth 

 century." The article says: 



"We have more than once called attention to the 

 broad and far-seeing policy inaugurated by Secretary 

 Noble in the matter of forest preservation in the less- 

 inhabited portions of the country, and it is satisfac- 

 tory to see that the daily press is now giving him 

 credit for the great work he has done. 



"It will be remembered that, beginning with the 

 Yellowstone National Park, which was brought to 

 the notice of Mr. Noble early in his administration, 

 he has given much attention to the question of our 

 parks and timber reservations. To say nothing of 

 the Grant, Sequoia, and Tule River parks, the 

 preservation of which we owe almost entirely to Mr. 

 Noble, there were set aside soon after the Act of Con- 

 gress of March 3, 1891, six timber reservations, em- 

 bracing an estimated area of three and a quarter 

 million of acres. Of these, three lie in Colorado, one 

 in New Mexico, one in Oregon, and one in Wyoming, 

 adjoining the Yellowstone National Park. Besides 

 these forest reserves, Mr. Noble has considered as 

 well the question of preserving our marine mam- 

 malian fauna of the Northwest coast, which is so 

 rapidly disappearing under the constant persecution 

 of white men and Indians, and has set aside an 

 Alaskan island as a reservation. 



"In December last there was established in South- 

 ern California a timber reservation near Los Angeles, 

 including nearly 1,000,000 acres. This will be known 



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