The Adirondack Deer Law 



importance of preserving the great North 

 Woods was clearly recognized. These forests 

 affect the climate of the State, increase its 

 water supply, contain many valuable health 

 resorts, and afford an ideal range of territory 

 for the protection and preservation of deer 

 the only kind of large game now remaining 

 in the State of New York. As is well known, 

 the species which is found in the Adirondack 

 Woods is variously designated as the Virginia 

 deer, red deer, common deer, and white-tailed 

 deer ; and, as Caton says in his " Deer and An- 

 telope of America," has been found in every 

 State and Territory of the United States, as 

 well as in Canada, British Columbia and 

 Mexico. Col. William F. Fox, Superintendent 

 of Forests, in the State of New York, says, in 

 a recent most valuable report, that in the 

 Southern States "the species is inferior in 

 size, being fully one-third smaller than the 

 northern deer. The Adirondack deer, while 

 not exhibiting, perhaps, the very largest and 

 finest type, will compare favorably with those 

 of Maine and Michigan, where the species is 

 seen at its best. In the Adirondack region 

 it attains a maximum weight of about 350 

 pounds. The largest recorded size a buck, 



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