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velt's approval originated at the College; second, because the wild 

 life problem is primarily a forest or non-agricultural land problem, 

 for which adequate provision had not previously been made. There 

 was no experiment station devoted solely to the requirements of the 

 14,000,000 acres of non-agricultural lands and waters in the State, 

 although the agricultural needs were already fairly well supplied 

 by experiment stations and farms; third, because the College is a 

 New York State institution bound by its charter to conduct research 

 and education in all phases of forestry; and fourth, because the 

 Roosevelt Wild Life Station is solely a research institution, and 

 is, therefore, more intimately related to education than to any 

 administrative department of the State service. The State has 

 already developed at Syracuse the largest and best equipped plant 

 for diversified forestry education in America. 



The Duties of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station 



The duties of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station are to investigate, 

 by all possible methods, our forest wild life : including the habits, 

 life histories, methods of propagation and management of fish, 

 birds, game, food and fur-bearing animals. The Station is thus 

 primarily devoted to increasing our knowledge of forest wild life, 

 by both outdoor and laboratory study which will develop new or 

 improved methods of increasing the forest production of fish, fur 

 and game animals and show their application to general forest man- 

 agement. The Station, therefore, supplements all State adminis- 

 trative agencies in forest wild life work and does not in practice 

 duplicate that of any other State scientific department. Any inci- 

 dental overlapping might even be beneficial if different methods of 

 approach were used. 



Since the establishment of the Station it has taken over the 

 forest wild life investigations already under way in the Department 

 of Forest Zoology at the College and has enlarged and extended 

 them. Thus the fish surveys of Oneida Lake, of Cranberry Lake 

 in the Adirondacks, and of the waters of the Palisades Interstate 

 Park and Erie County have been taken up or continued, and similar 

 work will be extended to other parts of the State as rapidly as 

 funds will permit. 



The investigations begun in the Adirondacks, on the relation of 

 birds to the protection of the forest, have been extended to the 

 Palisades Interstate Park. Hon. Louis Marshall, President of the 



