State Parks of Wisconsin 



V. RECOMMENDATIONS 



Briefly summarized the recommendations of this report are as fol- 

 lows: 



I. To authorize the State Park Board to secure as soon as may be 

 the refusal of such property as would constitute the most attractive 

 reservation in connection with the Dells of the Wisconsin, and to do 

 all that is possible to check any further action that would impair the 

 beauty of the Dells for park purposes. 



II. To empower the State Park Board to make an official inves- 

 tigation of the Devil's Lake region with authority to acquire all the 

 wild land up to, say, 5,000 acres, at a rate not to exceed an average 

 of $25 an acre, and as much of the level land around the lake as pos- 

 sible at a rate not to exceed $ 1 00 an acre, provided that the total 

 area available on these terms will, in the judgment of the State Park 

 Board and its landscape adviser, form a complete and valuable park. 

 In case of favorable action at Devil's Lake, the State should also ob- 

 tain through condemnation proceedings rights and easements over 

 the property not purchased, as has been done by the national govern- 

 ment in the military parks of Chickamauga and Shiloh, so as to pre- 

 vent the establishment of disfiguring and offensive industries, to pro- 

 tect the trees from destruction, and thus insure success to the State's 

 action. 



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