no less than 84 hunters strung along the seven miles of the 

 west boundary; and few of them went home disappointed. 

 Yet the deer in the Park are increasing. And this in a country 

 which, outside the influence of the preserve, was long ago 

 very thoroughly stripped of its deer. For many years the 

 people resented the presence of the preserve as a restriction 

 on their hunting privileges but they are now beginning to real- 

 ize that it is the salvation of the deer hunting in that section. 



Beaver, at one time practically extinct in that section, were 

 introduced into the preserve in 1900. Nearly every lake in 

 the Park, now boasts its beaver and some of them now sup- 

 port several colonies. There are at least 400 or 500 beavers 

 in the Park now, and they are spreading rapidly into the sur- 

 rounding country. 



Ruffed grouse and ducks breed in the preserve by the thou- 

 sands and all forms of wild life abound. 



All this from one little township of wild land. It is easy 

 to see what a number of such sanctuaries would mean to the 

 hunters and other lovers of wild life. 



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