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WISCONSIN STATE PARK. 



THE STATE PAEK. 



Near the northern extremity of the State of Wisconsin, and quite 

 unknown to the general public, is a tract of land comprising over 

 fifty thousand acres, which has been set aside by the State for a 

 public park. A more natural park or game-preserve could hardly 

 have been chosen in all the northern country. It is heavily tim- 

 bered, in places quite marshy, and contains a myriad of small lakes, 

 with the usual accompanying brooks and rivulets, so plentifully dis- 

 tributed over our northern territory. 



Many of these lakes are covered m part with the wild rice, so 

 alluring to aquatic fowl, besides which, the sportsman can always 

 depend upon finding in a district of this nature a plentiful supply of 

 the finny game. 



It was a wise and far-seeing man who first proposed to the Wis- 

 consin Scions to set aside a vast tract of almost primeval forest- 

 land for the benefit of the coming generation of sportsmen. It now 

 only remains for some one, more public -spirited than his fellows, to 

 propose, and urge until it is consummated, a plan for the propaga 

 tion of such game, in the park, as has become extinct, or almost so, 

 in this section of Wisconsin. A similar institution to the Fish 

 Commission, should be maintained. The parif should be stocked 

 with all game indigenous -to the country; wild-turkey, plover, swan, 

 deer, elk and all the other species that are now lacking or liable 

 to run out. 



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