Photograph by Thomas Riggs 



HEADED FOR THE ANNUAL CARIBOU HUNT 



Charley Blackfox and family off for the hills. The poles are tent poles, as the huntin 

 probably be well above timber-line. Note the packs on the dogs. 



will 



within 15 miles of this game paradise! 

 The establishment of a town at Nenana, 

 where the railroad crosses Tanana River, 

 has even now brought a market for game 

 some 50 miles nearer the sheep hills of 

 the Toklat. 



Already homesteads have been taken 

 up along the railroad, and in a few years 

 this untouched wilderness will hear the 

 sound of the mower and the clatter of 

 railroad trains. If the park is established 

 now, the game can be saved and will re- 

 main for other generations to enjoy. If 

 action is postponed a few years, the mar- 

 ket hunter and sportsman will have done 

 their work and the game will have gone 

 forever. 



Most of the larger streams of the park, 

 heading as they do in glaciers, are so 

 muddy that fish will not live in them. All 

 of the smaller tributary creeks that carry 

 clear water, however, are stocked with 

 grayling and furnish excellent fishing. 

 The grayling, a relative of the trout, is a 

 game fish, rises well to the fly, and af- 

 fords excellent sport. In texture and 



flavor it compares well with the trout and 

 is a welcome addition to the menu of the 

 camper. 



As will be seen from the photographs, 

 the new park lies almost entirely above 

 timber-line. Trees grow along the val- 

 leys of the main streams to an elevation 

 of about 3,000 feet above sea-level, but 

 the timbered areas comprise only a small 

 fraction of the whole. The only trees of 

 importance are the spruce, birch, and 

 cottonwood, and none of these are large. 

 The best patches of trees afford logs big 

 enough for making log cabins, but there 

 is no merchantable timber in the park. 

 Willow brush and some alders grow 

 somewhat farther up the valleys than the 

 trees and enable the camper to find fuel 

 for his fire in some areas where trees are 

 lacking. 



THE PARK IS EASILY ACCESSIBLE 



On the completion of the new govern- 

 ment railroad, now under construction, 

 the park will immediately become acces- 

 sible. The railroad line runs within m 



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