Swamp Reservations 



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i and divided by a pasture fence. The left hand end is closely pastured. 

 ! the extreme ends. 



their destruction is complete, public reservations 

 should be made to preserve the best located of the 

 marshes for educational uses. As we have need of 

 fields and stock-pens because we must be fed, so also 

 we have need of this wild life because we must be 

 educated. It was with our forefathers in their early 

 struggles to establish themselves in the New World: 

 it conditioned their activities, lending them succor or 

 making them trouble. In its absence it will be harder 

 to comprehend their work. The youth of the future 

 has a right to know what the native life of his native 

 land was like. It will help to educate him. 



