Maine nor the Adirondacks can compare with our North 

 Woods in this. 



Scenery? Nor are our North Woods without scenery. It 

 is hard for the dweller on the prairie tp realize that there are 

 near mountains in his own state, but they are there. Moun- 

 tains rising to ah altitude of over 2,000 ft. carved into rocky 

 cliffs and spruce covered peaks. Set right into this back- 

 ground of broken country are hundreds of island-dotted 

 lakes, the ideal camper's country. 



How many know that these things are all easily within their 

 reach ? 



But there is one important factor in this without which all 

 these attractive features fade away into one great stretch of 

 desolation. 



The forest. 



What is a camp, a canoe trip or scenery without forest? 

 What becomes of game when their forest home is destroyed? 

 No amount of stringent laws and money expended in game 

 protection can accomplish anything if we allow their home to 

 be wiped out. Few wish to fish in a desolate country." 



In game protection the Europeans are wiser than we. The 

 oid time kings protected the forests to protect their game 

 and it worked. Sportsmen should think of this and strongly 

 support the movement to preserve the forests. Every camper, 

 fisher, sportsman, canoeist or summer tourist is far more in- 

 terested in the forests than he realizes. He should use his 

 influence to preserve it. Nor need he hold back for fear of 

 injuring the economic development of this state for the money 

 returns alone which is a small proportion of the benefits 

 is far more from this source than could be obtained from 

 agricultural crops in that sandy, rocky, barren soil. 



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