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located on private lands purchased under the Weeks Act for water- 

 shed protection. 



- Congress has made several special appropriations for inclosures 

 or other improvements in establishing refuges to provide for game 

 acquired by donation or otherwise. In 1902, an appropriation of 

 $15,000 was made for the Yellowstone National Park for purchasing 

 a herd of buffalo (20 head), constructing a suitable inclosure, and 

 meeting incidental expenses of installation. In 1906, $15,000 was 

 appropriated for constructing a fence on the Wichita Game Pre- 

 serve, Okla., and in 1913, $2,000 for erecting suitable headquarters. 

 In 1910, an appropriation of $26,000 was made for the improvement 

 of the Wind Cave National Park, by the establishment of a game pre- 

 serve, including the acquisition of the lands above mentioned. For 

 the Sullys Hill Park, N. Dak., there have been five appropriations 

 of $5,000 each for improvements, including fencing, constructing 

 headquarters, roads, etc. 



The cost of maintenance of the various reservations is very mod- 

 erate. The annual appropriation for the care of the buffalo in the 

 Yellowstone Park until recently has been $3,000 (later $5,000), and 

 a small appropriation is made for the Wichita Game Preserve. Most 

 of the other mammal and bird refuges under the charge of the De- 

 partment of Agriculture, including 5 big-game refuges and 65 bird 

 reservations, have been maintained for several years under an annual 

 appropriation of approximately $35,000, increased to $39,735 for 

 1921. During the spring of 1920 emergency appropriations amount- 

 ing to about $75,000 were made for feeding elk in the Yellowstone 

 National Park and in Jackson Hole, Wyo. 



STATE GAME REFUGES. 



In marked contrast with provisions made in connection with na- 

 tional refuges, States seldom make any expenditures for lands on 

 which to establish game preserves, although liberal appropriations 

 are made for game farms. In providing for improvements where 

 neeessa^, or for costs of maintenance, much more liberal appropria- 

 tions are made as a rule than in the case of national reserves. State 

 refuges are usually located either on lands acquired by the State or 

 on lands which have reverted to it through nonpayment of taxes, or 

 occasionally, as in South Dakota, through exchange with the Federal 

 Government for school lands within Government reservations in 

 other parts of the State, In New York, Pennsylvania, and Wiscon- 

 sin the lands have been purchased by the State primarily for forestry 

 purposes, and not chiefly for the establishment of game reserves. In 

 Louisiana an area of about 15,000 acres on Vermilion Bay has been 

 donated to the 'State for a game reservation. More recently the great 

 Marsh Island and Rockefeller Preserves have also been donated to 



