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Allegany State Park, and it became a law in May, 1921, with the 

 signature of Governor Nathan A. Miller. 



The Roosevelt Station has thus, from the inception of the plans 

 which resulted in the establishment of the Park, been actively inter- 

 ested in its progress. As but few working plans for wild life parks 

 have been published, and as new parks are continually being estab- 

 lished throughout the country, the publication of these suggestions 

 is intended to assist the men and women promoting them. It should 

 be understood that these plans were formulated to meet a specific 

 case, and yet their application is widespread. At the end of this 

 paper I give a copy of the law under which the Allegany Park is 

 established and to be conducted (see pp. 75—81) ; and references 

 to publications that will be of special value to those interested in 

 this phase of wild life work. 



It should be borne in mind that throughout the plans for this 

 Park it is intended to practice modern reforestation of the much 

 cut-over land, and establish there a forest so managed as to pro- 

 duce a permanent yield of timber, except in the area reserved for 

 the Natural History Sanctuary and in the suggested experimental 

 " Roosevelt Field Station." Its system of management is intended 

 to harmonize with the fullest and best public use of this large forest 

 area. The plan will provide not only for the permanent supply of 

 timber needed for construction of buildings, for camp-fires, and other 

 purposes, and will shelter many kinds of plants and animals native 

 in such a forest, but it will also provide the beautiful natural appear- 

 ing woodland background desired for a camping park. In time, 

 such a forest will become an important source of revenue for main- 

 tenance of the Park, and it should be made an example showing how 

 all uses of the forest can be harmonized when intelligently organized. 



The Legislature has authorized the establishment of the Allegany 

 State Park in Cattaraugus County, about seventy miles south of Buf- 

 falo, near the State line, in the great bend of the Allegheny River 

 as it swings up into New York from Pennsylvania in the vicinity 

 of Salamanca. This is a part of the Appalachian plateau, lying at 

 a level of about two thousand feet above the sea, while entrenched 

 in this upland lies the beautiful open valley of the Allegheny 

 River, flowing about a thousand feet below. Many of the 

 tributary streams, such as Quaker and Wolf Runs, are fine 

 trout brooks. The whole region was once densely forested, but 

 has been cut over repeatedly. An occasional bear or deer is now 



