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HILL-COUNTRY HOMING PLACES 
How to Get One and Enjoy Its Benefits 
BY HOWARD GREEN 
HE movement to 
preserve our forests 
in their primitive 
state is spreading 
everywhere. Be- 
sides the passage of 
favorable laws by 
the different legis- 
latures, the idea 
has been utilized 
in the building of 
vast private estates 
and in the forma- 
tion of park asso- 


afford the opportunity, at comparatively 
small cost, for the nature lover to possess 
the ‘“‘home”’ in the forest he has dreamed 
about so long. 
Why should the man of moderate means 
not be a joint owner of part of the great 
forest? Wild land is still” comparatively 
cheap and there is plenty of choice, though 
it is rapidly being secured for the preserves, 
especially in the Catskill and Adirondack 
regions. A club of congenial fellows with a 
few hundred dollars each could buy a good 
many acres, with streams and forests, build 
the desired number of cabins, a few rough” 
bridges, and cut roads to facilitate getting 
about from camp to camp, and in that way 
enjoy their vacations and week-ends, per- 
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