PREFACE 



T was not to write a book that I 

 visited the Northwest. One need 

 not go so far from Massachusetts 

 to do that. The apple trees under 

 Mullein Hill are as full of books as 



... the continuous woods 

 Where rolls the Oregon. 



I spent the summer of 1912 in Oregon, studying 

 the wild life of the State, the fish and game, and 

 particularly the work of the Game Warden in its 

 educational aspects. I took no pencil with me for 

 fear I might write out my eyes. And Nature hates 

 an interviewer anyway. So this volume is not a 

 series of notes, but a group of impressions, deep, 

 indelible impressions of the vast outdoors of 

 Oregon. 



" Vast" is the right word for Oregon, vast and 

 varied, — the most alluring land to the naturalist 

 within the compass of our coasts. From Three- 

 Arch Rocks in the Pacific to the broad backs 

 of the Steins we travelled ; from the peaks of the 



