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Individuals 
Private individuals support these 
efforts very often. In the first place, 
there are many landowners who pre- 
serve natural beauty, remarkable rocks, 
woodland scenery, rare trees, and nests 
of birds on their own estates. Thus, 
Prince Stolberg-Wernigerode prohi 
bited the building of a theatre at the 
Brocken, so as to preserve the natural 
beauty of the highest summit of the 
Hartz mountains. Prince Putbus re- 
served the indigenous wood of the 
isle of Vilm near Riigen ; and Count 
Dohna Finckenstein reserved about 
88*9 acres of his forests, specially for 
the protection of the natural landscape 
around the lakes. 
Other persons have granted 
money for preserving natural monu- 
ments by purchase. For example, 
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