Forestry in the United States 



needs of humanity and to their love of sport. It furnishes 

 recreation, physical and mental, to all. The Park Reservations 

 belonging to city, state and nation are such. The Yosemite, 

 Grand Caiion and Yellowstone are our most famous national 

 parks. In the lower Appalachians there will soon be set aside 

 another to be kept as Nature will keep it for the people of the 

 whole country. The Adirondacks contain a New York state 

 park, and other states have similar reserves belonging to all the 

 people. The Metropolitan Park System of Boston is the best 

 illustration in this country of a chain of parks and timber reserva- 

 tions belonging to a city, and devoted to the recreation and 

 uplifting of its whole population. These parks are a refuge 

 for wild flowers that agriculture has exterminated, and for 

 wild birds that towns have driven out. They are the 

 precious heritage of the people and should never pass out of 

 their hands. 



The Game Preserve is a second type of recreation forest. 

 It ministers to primitive human instincts — love of pure wildness 

 and the freedom of outdoor life, and that stronger love for hunting 

 and fishing. 



National parks and reservations are open to hunters, with 

 certain restrictions. Smaller tracts are owned and maintained 

 by clubs or individuals. Such game preserves, fenced against the 

 public, and in charge of wardens the year around, are found in 

 the Adirondacks and in other Eastern mountains, and along the 

 coast where wild fowl are the chief attraction. In the shooting 

 and fishing season these tracts are visited by the owners and their 

 friends. For the joys of this period great preparations are made. 

 Lakes and streams are stocked with fish, and not uncommonly 

 big game and wild fowl are introduced to increase the number 

 and variety of game in the park. 



Mixed forests are best for game of all kinds. Broad-leaved 

 trees furnish better coverts for beasts and birds than conifers do. 

 They have denser undergrowth, and they sprout from stumps 

 and from the roots — a rare thing among evergreens. This 

 young growth furnishes important forage for herbivorous animals 

 in winter and summer. Browsing is their chief living. They 

 do not like the resin of the evergreens, as they do the succulent 

 twigs and inner bark of poplar and birch and maples. The 

 buds and the various tree fruits — berries and oily nuts and starchy 



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