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5. Sanctuaries. These will have little or no relation to game and guns. 

 Their function will be to provide typical areas of each important type of country 

 or cover or habitat or of wild-life associations which may be kept "forever" in 

 status naturae "plumb wild" and uncontaminated to the extent this may prove 

 practicable. Ripe timber may rot under its moss, arbutus wither unpulled . 

 Units of this type will be "refuges" in a special sense, but their prime function 

 will be aesthetic and scientific, rather than game management. 



Prlrately Owned 

 HEFU32S 



(Dedicated under Act 360, 

 P.A. 1913) 



t . _ ; 



MICHIGAN 



Status as of SOT. 15, 1928 



MAP 19 



Analysis of Leased Refuges. Most of the north central States have 

 sought to build up large systems of small refuges cheaply, by offering farmers a 

 nominal rental, and also the use of State refuge signs, in exchange for complete 

 closure of designated holdings. 



