State Parks of Wisconsin 



serve forever all the fine aims and ends of State Parks. The forests 

 and most of the bluffs, with their outcropping rock, can be secured 

 at reasonable rates and with little difficulty. 



The total area mapped out by the first State Park Commission as 

 representing the property desirable for the State to acquire, was 

 5,500 acres, which it has been roughly estimated could not be se- 

 cured for less than $250,000. Of this area 5,000 acres could be 

 had for about $ 1 00,000, and the other 500 acres would cost approx- 

 imately $1 50,000. Some of this it would be necessary to acquire, 

 but a large portion is not indispensable. The present situation at 

 Devil's Lake, as at the Dells, cannot fail to impress the members of 

 the State Legislature with the necessity for early action in the acqui- 

 sition of lands for State Parks. 



A visit to Door County cannot fail to be memorable. Whether 

 the belief of its residents that Door County is "the Paradise of Wis- 

 consin" is true or not, there can be no question that the peninsula, 

 whose shores are washed on one side by Lake Michigan and on the 

 other by the waters of historical Green Bay, is pre-eminently quali- 

 fied for selection as a State Park. The members of the State Park 

 Board, its advisors, the Govemor of the State, and other representa- 

 tive citizens have made several visits to Door County, spending days 

 in the consideration of its advantages, testing critically its claims for 

 consideration. So far as I know, the opinion is unanimous that here 

 at least, if nowhere else in Wisconsin, is a tract that can be selected 



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