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ment that led to its establishment. On March 5, 1920, Mr. J. C. 

 Brennan, President of the Erie County Society for the Protection of 

 Fish, Birds and Game, sought the assistance of the Roosevelt Sta- 

 tion for a fish survey of Erie County, because the Station had pre- 

 viously conducted fish surveys in the State. Mr. Brennan was 

 assured of the hearty cooperation of the Station and the services of 

 its specialist on fish, Professor T. L. Hankinson. He also conferred 

 with Mr. Chauncey J. Hamlin, President of the Buffalo Society of 

 Natural Sciences, who had already secured the cooperation of the 

 Erie County Society. President Hamlin came to Syracuse to consult 

 about these plans, and while in conference with Professor Henry R. 

 Francis, of the' Department of Forest Recreation in the College of 

 Forestry, and myself, both of whom had previously had experience 

 in the Palisades Interstate Park on the Hudson River, it was sug- 

 gested that there ought to be established in Western New York a 

 large public forest which should embrace every phase of modern 

 park activity, including fishing, hunting and camping. For years 

 sportsmen and conservationists in Western New York had been talk- 

 ing about the need of a wild life preserve there, but nothing had 

 taken definite shape. Following this conference, Mr. Hamlin, work- 

 ing with Mr. Hamilton Ward, Mr. Brennan and Mr. James Savage, 

 interested a group of public-spirited citizens, including ex-Senator 

 A. T. Fancher of Salamanca, and several gentlemen from Chau- 

 tauqua County, including Mr. F. G. Kaiser, and an active organiza- 

 tion was soon under way. Dean F. F. Moon had given assurance 

 of full cooperation on the part of the College of Forestry. Later 

 President Hamlin visited the Palisades Interstate Park, and with 

 the assistance of Mr. Edward F. Brown, formerly Superintendent, 

 Camp Department of the Palisades Park, organized local com- 

 mittees in New York City and in Albany designed to promote these 

 plans. 



In behalf of the committee, Mr. Brown visited Cattaraugus 

 County and prepared a report suggesting plans and legislation for 

 the proposed park. A brief of this report was published in 1920 

 under the title, "A State Park for Western ^New York." At Mr. 

 Brown's request I prepared a tentative plan for the wild life and 

 the natural history resources of the proposed park. This was 

 incorporated in his unpublished report and brief mention of it 

 was made in the published abstract. Through the activity of the 

 Buffalo committee, Mr. Hamilton Ward and Senator Henry W. 

 Hill, there was drafted a bill authorizing the establishment of the 



