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the Roosevelt Station are further authorized by law to cooperate 

 with other agencies, so that the work is by no means limited to 

 the boundaries of the State or to the use of State funds. Provision 

 for this has been made by the law which enjoins the Trustees ■ — 



" To enter into any contract necessary or appropriate for carrying- 

 out any of the purposes or objects of the college, including such 

 as shall involve cooperation with any person, corporation, or associa- 

 tion, or any department of the government of the State of New 

 York or of the United States, in laboratory, experimental, investiga- 

 tive or research work, and the acceptance from such person, corpora- 

 tion, association, or department of the State or Federal government 

 of gifts or contributions of money, expert service, labor, materials, 

 apparatus, appliances or other property in connection therewith." 

 [Laws of New York, chapter 42. Became a law March 7, 1918.] 



By these laws the Empire State has made provision to conduct 

 forest wild life research upon a general and comprehensive basis, 

 and on a plan as broad as that approved by Theodore Roosevelt 

 himself. 



From its inception the Station has enlisted the cooperation of 

 other State departments, first with the Commissioners of the Pali- 

 sades Interstate Park, and later with the Commissioners of the 

 Allegany State Park and the State Conservation Commission on 

 Park wild life problems. Special investigations have been conducted 

 with the assistance of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, in the 

 Palisades Interstate Park and on Oneida Lake. On Mount Marcy 

 in the Adirondacks, timber line conditions were studied with the 

 Ecological Society of America, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and 

 the Vermont Agricultural Station. A fish survey of Erie County 

 has been conducted with the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 

 the Erie County Society for the Protection of Birds, Fish and 

 Game, and seven other allied organizations in that vicinity. Several 

 Trustees of the College of Forestry have contributed funds for a 

 special study of the Adirondack beaver which was made during the 

 past summer. 



In addition to the cooperation with various State departments, 

 private organizations and individuals within the State, studies now 

 in progress in Yellowstone National Park have been made possible 

 through the financial support of the Yellowstone Park Camps Com- 

 pany and a grant from special friends, together with the assistance 

 of the .National Park Service and with the collaboration of several 



