Wild Life Management for Allegany Park 69 



There are today about thirty State game preserves in Penn- 

 sylvania, including one in Tioga and three in Potter County, these 

 counties being on the ( New York State line. There are none in Erie, 

 Warren or McKeen Counties, which are also adjacent to the State 

 line and the Allegany State Park. To equip one of these preserves 

 costs about $2,000, and its maintenance requires about $1,200. The 

 system has completely restored good hunting in Pennsylvania, and 

 would, with intensive care made possible by wardens, keepers, and 

 police, properly justify a moderate fee for the enjoyment of these 

 privileges. By such means a fund could be accumulated to pay at 

 least in part, for the wild life maintenance. 



In the present Park there should be several of these preserves, 

 particularly in the remote areas, because other park visitors must be 

 fully protected from accidental shooting by hunters, or the fear of 

 stray bullets. If tramping trails are laid out in the hunting preserve, 

 they should therefore be closed during the hunting season. Shelters 

 and camps should be provided for sportsmen in the hunting areas. 

 The preserve method for maintaining game in the Allegany Park 

 should be carefully adapted and applied to angling preserves. (See 

 Kendall, '18; Adams, Hankinson and Kendall, '19). This may in- 

 volve a system of rotation, by periodically opening and closing cer- 

 tain areas, in order to keep the waters fully stocked. All game 

 preserves should occupy the most remote and inaccessible parts of 

 the Park if they are to be developed to the highest degree, as by 

 this means the greatest acreage can be secured, with the least dis- 

 turbance of the game by the visitors and with the least risk to human 

 life by accidental shooting. The hunting season of course follows 

 the summer season with its maximum number of Park visitors, but 

 there should be absolute safety from hunters throughout the year. 



A Natural History Preserve 



In addition to the angling and hunting preserves just discussed, 

 a large area of the Park should be set aside for a Natural History 

 Preserve where no hunting or angling should be allowed, and where 

 plants and animals should be carefully protected in as nearly a 

 natural state as is possible (Adams, '13). This area should be 

 devoted mainly to the scientific, educational and recreational inter- 

 ests that cluster about natural history in all of its varied phases, as 

 expressed in the popular regard for flowers, trees, birds, rocks, 

 minerals and fossils. Tramping and boating should be encouraged 

 and their needs amply provided for. (See Buxton, '84, preface; 



