24 S THE FORESTER. October, 



much of this appalling destruction has Pennsylvania as a " forest reserve," there 



been done without leaving the owners of should be some which will offer oppor- 



the Bio- Trees as well off as they were tunity whereby some of our native animals 



before it began." Report on the Big which are still resident, but in decreasing 



Trees Government Printing Office. numbers, such as the common deer, the 



wild turkey, and the ruffed grouse, may be 

 indefinitely preserved, and perhaps others, 



" Secretary Stockwell, of guch ag the elk? reestablished. 



CoionFef the Massachusetts Board of < This noble animal was formerly 

 Agriculture, has recently a b un( j a nt in mountainous regions, and it 

 made a survey of the districts infested by ^ not fiftv years s ; nce tne killing of the 

 the gypsy moth to ascertain the effects of a lagt Qne known w ithin the State. It is 

 cessation of the moth-killing. The kgisla- certam that with suitable forest tracts of 

 tion refused to make an appropriation this su ffi c j en t extent, and with adequate pro- 

 year for continuing warfare on the moths, tection, this species could, at small cost, 

 but near the close of the session put in an be aga j n established as a resident.' 

 item of $1,000 for observation of the in- u We understand that it is the intention 

 sects and care of the State's apparatus. of tbe Forestry Commissioner to enforce 

 The secretary tells a Boston paper the game and figh laws on the foi - est re _ 

 what lie found in Maiden, Medford and serve? anc } possibly some portion could 

 Middlesex Falls. The most interesting algo be set aside as a game pre serve." 

 discovery was an evergreen hedge, on a Forest Leaves. 

 neglected farm in West Medford, that had 



been nearly stripped of foliage by the cat- & 



erpillars of the gypsy moth. The hedge u Those working to se- 



is in the care of a man who opposed an Building Better cure a na ti O nal park at the 



appropriation. A caterpillar that will eat ie y Knew - headwaters of the Missis- 



the foliage of evergreens is certainly a s j pp i Ri ve r are certainly " building better 



rarity and a dangerous pest. For ever- than th knew." Every disinterested 



greens have slight powers of recuperation rson w - n con cede that the establishment 



and die when the foliage is destroyed. b the Government of such a park within 



Nothing but pure neglect would have per- the borders of our State would attract many 



mitted the destruction of a hedge that could thousands of v i s i to rs annually. The pub- 



easily have been saved by the use of in- licity a i r eady given this Leech Lake region 



secticides. throughout the Union by the advocates of 



The secretary's survey showed that thig k hag already given the hotels at 



there will be a fair crop of caterpillars Walker and Cass L ake an overflowing 



t year, unless the people in the locah- patronatye> The arguments to be put forth 



ties infested do something to destroy the jT or the sa - o the pine forests on the 



egg masses As yet no enemy strong C hi PP ewa reservation and the bequeathing 



enough to 1 ; the insect has made its ap- of game to the le for all time to come 



are legion. * * * The opening up of this 

 reservation to settlement means simply a 



Forest Reserves " * n tlie annua ^ report repetition of the Red Lake reservation 



as Game Pre- of the Zoological Society timber sale, where the Government only 



of Philadelphia for the realized on behalf of the Indians from the 



year ending February 28, 1900, attention lumbermen $198,000 for timber cut and 



called to the increasing difficulty removed and actually worth $i, 500,000 



of procuring specimens of the more a deficit of nearly $1,300,000 unlawfully 



important animals belonging to Penn- gained and which should be refunded to 



/Ivania, and says: ' It would appear prob- the Indians. Opposition to the establish- 



;il)le that among the large tracts of land ment of the national Minnesota park is to- 



vhich are being acquired by the State of day coming wholly from this source. It 



