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last stand. This is not merely a fine collection of trees. 

 It is the protection, the home, the sustenance of a wonder- 

 fully varied wild life. It is shade, recreation, the source 

 of waters, the home of many birds, shrubs, wild flowers 

 and animal life. The pleasure to be derived from this 

 association is perennial and perpetual as long as the forest 

 shall stand and be protected. 



In the lower part of Red House valley is located the 

 last remnant of a small balsam swamp, the only one of 

 its kind south of the Allegheny river in New York. This 

 swamp is the home of a large number of rare plants to be 

 found nowhere else in the region. It and the adjacent 

 bottom-lands should be acquired and set aside as a preserve 

 which will result in a natural increase in the size of the 

 swamp as it regains some of the area cut away. 



On the divide between Quaker run and Bay State 

 creek, extending from above English run westward to 

 the line of the Indian reservation is another large area, 

 much of it timbered, which should constitute a preserve 

 for the protection of the wild life and plants thereon. 



CATALOG OF PLANTS 

 The following list of plants includes not only those of 

 the park region proper, but also the plants of the adjacent 

 Allegheny and Tunungwant valleys and a small portion 

 of the terminal moraine region about Randolph and 

 Steamburg. The relative abundance and soil preferences 

 are given for each species so far as that could be ascer- 

 tained from the survey made of the region, a survey ad- 

 mittedly incomplete. Particular mention is made of those 

 species found only in the glaciated region or in the Tun- 

 ungwant and Allegheny valleys but not in the park area. 

 Three species, Carex Emoryi, Scutellaria- canescens and 

 Hicracium Grccnei are definitely recorded in New York 

 State for the first time. A more extended study of the 



