96 WISCONSIN STATE PARK. 



THE STATE PARK. 



Near the northern extremity of the State of Wisconsin, and quite 

 unknown to the general public, is a tract of land comprising over 

 fifty thousand acres, which has been set aside by the State for a 

 public park. A more natural park or game-preserve could hardly 

 have been chosen in all the northern country. It is heavily tim- 

 bered, in places quite marshy, and contains a myriad of small lakes, 

 with the usual accompanying brooks and rivulets, so plentifully dis- 

 tributed over our northern territory. 



Many of these lakes are covered in part with the wild rice, so 

 alluring to aquatic fowl, besides which, the sportsman can always 

 depend upon finding in a district of this nature a plentiful supply of 

 the finny game. 



It was a wise and far-seeing man who first proposed to the Wis- 

 consin Solons to set aside a vast tract of almost primeval forest- 

 land for the benefit of the coming generation of sportsmen. It now 

 only remains for some one, more public -spirited than his fellows, to 

 propose, and urge until it is consummated, a plan for the propaga 

 tion of such game, in the park, as has become extinct, or almost so, 

 in this section of Wisconsin. A similar institution to the Fish 

 Commission, should be maintained. The park should be stocked 

 with all game indigenous to the country; wild-turkey, plover, swan, 

 deer, elk and all the other species that are now lacking or liable 

 to run out. 



