State Parks of Wisconsin 



III. To authorize the State Park Board to acquire the lands in 

 Door County near Fish Creek, now under consideration, on the gen- 

 eral terms named in this report. 



IV. To authorize the State Park Board to acquire the lands in 

 Grant County near Wyalusing, as outlined, on the general terms 

 quoted in this report. 



These four parks and others that may be obtained later by public 

 purchase or private gift — for such gifts can reasonably be expected — 

 should ultimately be connected by great State roads or parkways, 

 binding the State lands into a system. Such roads are being rapidly 

 built on a large scale by other States and Wisconsin cannot afford to 

 lag behind in work so closely related to progress and public welfare. 

 A State road of such a character as to provide adequately for auto- 

 mobile travel from, say. Green Bay to Prairie du Chien, following 

 the historic route along the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers; another diag- 

 onal connecting St. Paul and Minneapolis with Milwaukee and 

 Chicago, and a third road along the Wisconsin shores of Lake Mich- 

 igan and Lake Superior, would prove an investment, the return from 

 which would leave the State no room for regret. 



The issue appears plain. Is Wisconsin going to look upon its bay 

 and lake shores, its rivers and bluffs, its dells, its inland lakes, its for- 

 ests, as natural resources to be conserved and some portion at least 

 acquired and held for the benefit of all the people — both for present 

 and future generations? Is the State to display foresight and act in 



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