102 WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



offers very small encouragement to the friends of 

 wild life. 



There is one subject that I would urge upon the 

 attention of every man who is in any way interested 

 in the development of our existing forests or the 

 creation of new forests. It is the possibilities in the 

 raising of deer in the forests and on the waste lands 

 of the United States. 



Without attempting to develop precise figures, 

 let us call to mind the enormous extent of the 

 untillable lands of the United States that are cov- 

 ered with brush and young timber, and also the 

 vast areas of deciduous and coniferous forests. 

 Pause for one moment, and consider the countless 

 square miles of unbroken forest that you have 

 looked upon from your car windows in the East, 

 in the South, in the West, and in southern Canada. 

 Recall the wooded mountains of the Appalachian 

 system, the White Mountains, the pine forests of 

 the Atlantic coast and the Gulf states ; the timbered 

 regions of Tennessee, Arkansas and southern Mis- 

 souri; the scrub-oak belt of Minnesota, and the 

 coniferous forests of every state of the northern 

 Rocky Mountain region. Then think on westward 

 of the silent and untouched forest empire of the 

 Pacific coast, from the Sacramento Valley to Sitka 

 and Mount McKinley. Would ten million deer 

 and elk make any visible impression on that vast 

 green crazy-quilt of forest areas? 



But let us, for the moment, confine our thoughts 



