Report 



of the 



Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner 



For the year 1908 



Albany, N. Y., January 8, 1909. 

 To the Honorable, the Legislature : 



THE law directs the Commissioner to " annually report to the Legislature 

 the proceedings for each year * * * with such recommendations 

 as he deems proper." 

 Herewith is submitted the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Forest, 

 Fish and Game Commission, with such suggestions for changes in and 

 amendments to the law as conditions seem to warrant. It is with pleasure, 

 as well as in compliance with law, that we report and call attention to the 

 work of this Department during the year 1908. Progress along every line 

 has been reasonably satisfactory. A comparison (failures and successes) 

 with the work of the last decade is invited. In that way the steady improve- 

 ment during the year 1908 can best be understood. Much has been done; 

 there is yet much to do. With all that we have accomplished, we are far, 

 very far, from the goal toward which we started when this Commission was 

 established. 



Attention is respectfully directed to the results obtained during the 

 past year, which indicate to the Legislature, in a material way, our appre- 

 ciation of the prompt and willing support given through its enactments and 

 appropriations. We desire to thank the press of the State for the endorse- 

 ment and dissemination of useful information in relation to the work of the 

 Department, and all our people who have generously and intelligently 

 united in enforcing the law and in protecting the forests, fish and game of 

 the State. The subject matter over which we have jurisdiction is so wide- 

 spread, so difficult to handle, that without the hearty co-operation of the 



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