Jan. 28> 1899.] 
FOREST AND STREAM, 
67 
List of the Western Forest Reserves* 
So much has been said backward and forward in the 
newspapers about the forest timber land reservations of 
the West, and yet so little is known about their location 
and extent, that it seems well to print in Forest and 
Stream a map of the couiTtry from the Mississippi River 
to the Pacific Coast showing the relative positions anj 
sizes of the forest reservations, as well as a table giving 
the name, location, date of establishment, and estimated 
acreage of each. Besides these timber land reserva- 
tions, there are also the National Parks, aggregating some- 
thing more than 5,000 square miles of territory. The ma- 
terials for this enumeration are taken from the land office 
statements in the last report of the Secretary of the In- 
terior. On the map the forest reserves are black; the 
National Parks the white numbered areas adjacent to the 
black forest reserves. 
Notwithstanding all the hostility to this subject which 
was felt in the West, and to which we have so often re- 
ferred, the work of setting aside the forests has con- 
tinued during the past year, the importance of the subject 
being such as to impress itself on all intelligent men. Two 
■new reservations, embracing more than 1,650,000 acres, 
have been established, and the boundaries of one or more 
existing reservations have been enlarged. Serious efforts 
are being made to carry out the laws and the regulations 
tliat have been established, but as to almost all our officials 
in Washington and elsewhere this is entirely new busi- 
ness, the work of carrying it forward intelligently is 
difficult and slow. At the same time, the work is going 
forward more rapidly than could have been hoped, and a 
better understanding of forest preservation is leading people 
everywhere to take more and more interest in the subject. 
.There is no doubt need for additional legislation with re- 
gard to our forests, but even more important than this is 
the need that the persons employed in foresti-y work 
should be of high character and thoroughly interested m 
the subject. 
Estimated 
State or Date of Procla- Area in 
No. Natne. 'leiritory. mation. Acres. 
139. Black Hills S. D Feb. 23,189T 907,680 
140. Pecos River N. M \ '^V 'l S98V '.'.] 
141. Pike's Peak Col -jlltch^Msk i I ^^^^ 
142. Plum Creek Col JuneSS, ISOi! 1T9,'200 
14-3. South Platte Col Dec. 9, 1 '592 6S3,5iO 
144. Battlement Me=a Col Dec. 24. 1 $92 S58.240 
145. White River Plateau Col Oct. Ifi, 1891 1,198,080 
146. Big Horn Wyo Feb. 22, 1S97 1,127,680 
147. Teton Wyo Feb. 27, 1897. ., . . . 829,440 
148. Yellowstone National Park. Wyo ] sipr^0,^]S9i?; ! |-li239,040 
149. Black Mesa Ariz Aug." It,' 1 898.'. .'. . .1 ,658,880 
150. San Francisco Mountams.. Ariz Aug. 17, 1898 975,860 
151. Prescott Ariz May 10, 1898 10,240 
152. Grand Canon Ariz Feb. 2.0, 1893 1,851,520 
153. Uintah Utah Feb 22, 1897 875,520 
1.54. Bitter Root Idaho, Mont. Feb. 22, 1897 4,147,200 
155. Lewis AClarke Mont.. Feb. 22, 1897, .. .2,926,080 
156. Flathead Mont Feb. 22, 1897 1,882,400 
157. Priest River Id. & Wash. .F eb. 22, 1897 6)5,120 
158. San Jacinto Cal Feb. 22, 1897 7«7,2S0 
159. Trabuco Canon Cal Feb. 25, 189!? 49,920 
160. San Bernardino Cal Feb. 25, 1898 787,280 
161. San Gabriel Cal Dec. 20, 1S92 555,520 
162. Pine Mt. and Zaca Lake. .Cal -j j^,n''e ^ 'lS98*V ' \ ii''>4*.»i'-f- 
168. Sierra ■. Cal Feb. l-l,'lS98\'.'.',' . .4,096,000 
164. Stanislaus 'Cal Feb. 22, 1S97 691,200 
165. Ashland Oregon Sept. 28, 1893 18,5(10 
166. Casc-^de Range... Oregon Sept. 28, 1893 4,492,800 
167. Bull Run Oregon June 17, 1892 142,080 
168. Mt Rainier Wash FeL. 22, 1S97 2,2rt4.S80 
169. Washington Wash Feb. 22, 1897 3..594,240 
KO. Olympic Wash Feb. 22, 1897 2,188,800 
NATIONAL P.\RKS. 
. r^u- a ■ txr „• t 3,348 sq. miles: 62 miles from N. 
1.2. \ellowstone. Chiefly m Wyoming \ r'^^ ^^^^^ g ^^W. 
173. Sequoia .Ca'ifornia About. 250 sq, miles. 
174. Gen. Grant. .California About 4 sq. miles. 
1 About 1,512 sq. miles; 42 miles 
175. Yosemite California - fromN. toS.,36 miles from E. 
) to W. 
This enumeration does not include the Island of Afog- 
nak, lying off the coast of Alaska, not far from Kadiac 
Island. 
CHICAGO AND THE WEST. 
Michigan State Game and Fish Prcte live League. 
Lansing, Mich., Jan. i8, — If the wishes and delibera- 
tions of the Michigan State Game and Fish Protective 
League be respected by the State Legislature, Michigan 
will cut forty-four pages out of her fish laws as they now 
stand printed, and will charge non-residents a license fee 
of $25 for shooting any sort of game within the borders 
of that State. This is the gist of the meeting of the 
League, which concluded its session at midnight of yes- 
terday. 
Two years ago the game laws of Michigan were in- 
cumbered by a mass of local acts, contradictory clauses 
and the general accumulation of years of haphazard legis- 
lation. This same League took the matter in hand, sug- 
gested that the rubbish be cut out and modern enact- 
ments be made instead. In general, the wishes of the 
League were respected. The result may be seen in the 
'admirable game law which now stands on the statute 
books of Michigan. 
It became evident this year that if the officers of the 
State were to carry on their work intelligently under the 
fish laws, there must be a general remodeling of those 
laws. Accordingly the call was issued on the 20th of last 
December for the meeting which was held in this city 
yesterday. The work of the meeting was careful and 
well considered, and provided that the game and fish 
committee of the present session of the Michigan Legisla- 
lure shall listen to the council of the best posted men of 
the State on such matters, Michigan will have fish laws 
as good as her game laws. 
The Machinery of the Law. 
The pretty city of Lansing is full of bustle these days, 
the State Legislature being in session. Part of the morn- 
ing was spent by the visiting members of the League in 
the galleries at the State House, where the machinery of 
the law might be seen in full operation. The building 
was full of public men, and one CQ^ld gain a verv good 
notion of the way laws are madf, and get also some con- 
ception, of the distance there lies betwe<;n the ivishes of 
THE FOREST PRESERVES. 
the sportsmen and the written page upon the statutes of 
the commonwealth. 
Busy about the State House, striding from one room 
to another with all the energy of a steam-fed machine, 
there might be seen Chase S. Osborn, State game and fish 
warden, whose record for the past two years has been an 
extraordinary one, and whose enthusiasm and executive 
energy are not likely soon to be duplicated. Warden 
Osborn, as I learned, has had offered to him the renewal 
of his appointment to the office of State warden. Gov- 
ernor Pingree could not find a better man. Warden Os- 
born has been well seconded by his State deputy. Charles 
E. Brewster, secretary of this League. Mr. Brewster 
also knows a great many of the public men of the State, 
and has a good record of nearly a straight string of con- 
victions. The office of State warden during this year 
shows the remarkable results of 1,096 arrests and 876 con- 
victions, far and away the record of the United States 
on the legal side of protective work. With this show- 
ing and with the splendid machinery which Warden Os- 
born has put in force, the State of Michigan has much 
cause of self-gratulation. It is to be hoped she will still 
further improve her operating machinery by the adoption 
of the suggestions of this League in the matter of fish 
laws, 
Those Present. 
The following were among those present at the sessions 
of yesterday morning and evening; 
Hon, Chase S. Osborn, State Game and Fish Warden, 
Sault Ste. Marie; Chas. E. Brewster, Secretary, Grand 
Rapids; .A. L. Lakey, President, Kalamazoo; Ed. Car- 
penter, Deputy Warden, Saginaw; G. W. Willis. Deputy 
Warden, Bay City; W. A. Palmer, Deputy Warden, 
Buchanan; Frank A. Rodgers, Prosecuting Attorney, 
Grand Rapids; Geo. H. Blackmar, Grand Rapids; A. N. 
Henne, Grand Rapids ; G. Henry Sheara, Bay City ; Hon. 
F. C. Chamberlain, Ironwood, Mich., member Interstate 
Game Commission, and Representative in Legislature ; 
Ed. H. Gillman, President Turtle Lake Fishing and 
Shooting Club ; Judge S. L. Vance, Port Huron ; Hon. 
C. E. Foote, Kalamazoo; Jay Pearsall, Lansing; Hon. H. 
K. Gustin, Alpena; Hon. Dennis Baumgaertner, Sagi- 
naw; V. Kindler, Saginaw; John O'Neal, Charlevoix; 
D. M, Estey, Owasso; Judge S, B. Daboll, St. Johns-; 
Mich.; O. B. Estey, Owasso, Mich.; Josiah Hill, Pontiac; 
D. G. Henry, Deputy Game Warden, Grand Rapids; L. 
Whitney Watkins, Manchester; W. B. Rosevear, Sag- 
inaw. 
During the evening session there were present Chair- 
man Anderson, of the game and fish committee in the 
House. Mr. Anderson comes from Grand Rapids, which 
is to say he is well grounded in protective matters. Repre- 
sentative -Gustin, of Alpena, was also present, another 
member of the committee, and another man who is 
modern in his ideas of protection. Representative Blakes- 
ley, of Berrien county; Representative John Carton, of 
Flint; ex-Speaker Tateum, of Grand Rapids, and others 
of prominence in State political circles attended the even- 
ing session. Governor Pingree promised to attend, but 
failed to do so. The committee appointed to invite the 
Governor was composed of Warden Osborn, Judge Da* 
boll, of St. Johns, and Ed. H. Gillman, of Detroit. 
Afternoon Session, 
President A. L. Lakey, of Kalamazoo, called the after- 
noonrsession to order at 2 P. M. Secretary Brewster was 
at the desk, and read the call for the fifth annual meet- 
ing of the League. The routine matters of credentials, 
pifnnt^S of last tTieeting. etc,j were rapidly run off, and 
a working committee or two appointed. The meeting of 
the evening was referred to as being of greatest im- 
portance, and not much actual business was transacted at 
the first session, Mr. Brewster and Mr. Rodgers, the 
latter prosecuting attorney of Kent county, stated that 
they came, instructed by the sportsmen of Grand Rapids 
to take the position that the game laws should be left as 
they are. and thai no changes should be attempttid for 
fear of disastrous results. President Lakey offered for 
reading his address, which was pithy and to the point. 
One sentence from it was as follows : "Wise legislation 
is always for the future as much as for the present." 
This is certainly good doctrine and worth bearing in 
mind. Mr, . Lakey wished spring shooting to be pro- 
hibited as it now stands. He did not think there should 
be any shooting of snipe in the spring, or of woodcock in 
August. He thought that the deer season should begin 
Nov. 1 and close Nov. 20, and that the hunter should be 
limited to three deer in any one season. He believed in 
a general shooting license for residents and non-residents. 
He referred in complimentary terms to th,e Chicago inter- 
state meeting of wardens, and the bill drafted there, a 
cop}' of which was shown, Mr. Lakey's address was 
received with appropriate and just applause. Mr. Rod- 
gers moved that copies be made for the use of the legis- 
lative committee, and this was ordered. 
A Small Split. 
A little split in the meeting was threatened when Judge 
Daboll, of St. Johns, tall, positive and energetic, rose to 
take issue with the Grand Rapids members, and to insist 
on changes in the game laws. Judge Daboll said that the 
meeting ought to know its own mind before it went be- 
fore the legislative committee, at the same time he was 
not satisfied to take instructions from Grand Rapids. He 
said we must have progress in game laws, and be willing 
to fight, and not be too much afraid of losing what we 
have. He moved that the game law be amended so 
that the deer season should be Nov. i to Nov. 20. Mr. 
Gillman seconded this. Mr. Brewster moved to amend 
by inserting section 18 of the interstate bill in full, the 
dates to be Nov. 1-20, the limit three deer, with five days 
off each end of the season before selling season. This 
motion was carried as amended, 
Mr. Rodgers said he was disposed to wait until other 
States had passed this bill. "Let us not endanger our 
present law," he said. Judge Daboll said in reply : "I 
represent a large element, and I want to say that you 
cannot evade this fight, no matter what the instructions 
from Grand Rapids may be. I want a shorter season 
and an earlier season, so that hunters can kill fewer deer, 
and not more." Representative Harry Gustin, of Alpena, 
said he thought the date of Nov. 1-20 was all right. 
Warden Osborn, in his impulsive, nervous style, said that 
he believed in progressive protection. He admired the 
conservatism of Grand Rapids, but wanted to see progress. 
Michigan already had the best game laws of any of the 
Western States, but they might be still better. Some 
one made reference to the now famous remark of Mr. 
Foote, of Kalamazoo, who stated that he could never 
approve of cutting down the limit from five deer to three 
deer, since no one could go out hunting and pay expenses 
if- he got less than five deer. Mr. Foote got the very ap- 
propriate and general roasting he deserved. 
On motion of Mr. Willis, of Bay City, a committee of 
five was appointed to draft a general fish bill to be 
presented at the evening session, said committee being 
C. E. Brewster, chairman; A. L. Lakey, Judge S. B. Da- 
boll, Messrs. O. B. Estey Frank Rgdgers, Adjown^ 
ment w?..s then had, 
