SUGGESTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF 



FOREST WILD LIFE IN THE ALLEGANY 



STATE PARK, NEW YORK 



By Dr. Charles C. Adams, Director 



Contents 



i. Introduction. 



2. Angling and Hunting Preserves. 



3. A Xatural History Preserve. 



a. A Wild Life Exhibit. 



b. A Natural History Sanctuary. 



4. A " Roosevelt Field Station," for the Roosevelt Wild Life 



Forest Experiment Station. 



5. Reference List. 



Introduction 



The establishment of preserves for wild life and the purposes of 

 natural history has made much progress in America during 

 the past quarter of a century. At present there is urgent need of 

 greatly increasing their number, and an equally acute need of scien- 

 tific study of the best methods of managing them; and of teach- 

 ing the public how most thoroughly to understand and benefit by 

 them. Reservations cannot be simply established and then left to 

 themselves, because by normal increase their wild life may soon 

 become a menace to itself and may even defeat the purpose for 

 which the preserves are established. Wild life must today be intel- 

 ligently supervised; and it is quite a difficult applied science to 

 maintain it in a normal wild state in this modern world. Those won- 

 derful Louisiana preserves, now that they are created, must be care- 

 fully studied scientifically or they will not, in the long run, be a 

 success. We hear much more about setting apart reservations than 

 we do of their proper care and use; the first step of course is to 

 establish them, and then comes the problem of their utilization. 

 The Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station was estab- 

 lished primarily to investigate just such problems, and since its 

 beginning has devoted itself to such investigations. 



The Roosevelt Wild Life Station has reason to take a special 

 interest in the Allegany State Park because of its part in the move- 



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