204 WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



"The Antelope and Deer of America," established 

 a deer park near Ottawa, Illinois. Here Judge 

 Caton made a highly valuable study of American 

 big game in captivity. 



In 1886 the late Austin Corbin began fencing 

 in his game park near Newport, New Hampshire, 

 including within it the farm which had been his boy- 

 hood home. This park is the largest private fenced 

 preserve in America, containing within its area 

 about 27,000 acres of wooded upland country 

 diversified by occasional cleared areas which once 

 were hill farms. It is estimated that there have 

 been as many as 4,000 big game animals in this park 

 at one time, including buffalo, wapiti, deer and wild 

 boars. The native white-tailed deer are naturally 

 the most numerous. 



Blue Mountain Forest Park, as it is called, was 

 established as a hunting-preserve. It has had the 

 good fortune to have associated with it, for several 

 years, the New Hampshire naturalist, Ernest 

 Harold Baynes, with whose interesting studies the 

 public is familiar through his published articles. 



The largest fenced preserve in New York State 

 is the park owned by Edward H. Litchfield of 

 Brooklyn, near Tupper Lake, in the Adirondacks, 

 which comprises in its area about 10,000 acres. Mr. 

 Litchfield has stocked this preserve with many 

 species of American big game animals, and also wild 

 boar. 



Another interesting preserve of this type is that 



