SIEUR DE MONTS PUBLICATIONS 



VII 



Man and Nature 



George B. Dorr 



A paper written in 1913, when plans now realized for the 

 creation of a national park upon Mount Desert Island 

 were first brought forward. 



The question of Public Eeservations is of paramount 

 importance in the eastern portion of our country, where 

 we have already got a dense population swiftly created 

 and swiftly growing denser without apparent limit. 



Magnificent reservations have been created in the 

 West, with wise prevision; nothing similar, save the re- 

 cent first establishment of national forests in the North- 

 ern and the Southern Appalachians, has yet been 

 undertaken in the East, with its far greater human need, 

 its beautiful scenery, ready accessibility and perma- 

 nently productive territory. 



We are passing into a new phase of human life where 

 men are congregating in vast multitudes, for industrial 

 purposes, for trade and intercourse; the population of 

 the future must inevitably be many times the popula- 

 tion of the present, and the need of conserving now, 

 while there is time, pleasant, wholesome breathing-places 

 for these coming multitudes is great. How great, we 

 can with difficulty realize in our country yet so newly 

 occupied and in a period so new of growth and vast 



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