The Creating of Game Refuges 



It was my pleasant task, during the past sum- 

 mer, to visit a portion of the Forest Reserves of 

 the United States for the purpose of studying 

 tracts which might be set aside as Game Refuges. 

 To this end I was commissioned by the Division 

 of Biological Survey of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture as "Game Preserve Expert," 

 a new title and a new function. 



The general idea of the proposed plan for the 

 creation of Game Refuges is that the President 

 shall be empowered to designate certain tracts, 

 wherein there may be no hunting at all, to be set 

 aside as refuges and breeding grounds, and the 

 Biological Survey is accumulating information to 

 be of service in selecting such areas, when 

 the time for creating them shall arrive. The 

 Forest Reserves of the United States are 

 under the care of the Department of the 

 Interior, and not under the Agricultural De- 

 partment, where one would naturally expect 



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