Forest and Stream 
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Copyright, 1903, by Forest and Stream Pubushing Co. 
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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1902. 
VOL. LIX.— No. 8. 
No. 846 Broadway, New York. 
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THE BUFFALO REMNANTS, 
The increased interest in buflfalo preservat'on is en- 
couraging, and it would seem that there is now a prospect 
of some earnest action by the Government looking toward 
efficient efforts in this direction. Congress has appro- 
priated $15,000 for the purpose of protecting the buffalo 
in the Yellowstone National Park, and for establishing 
there a herd of domesticated buffalo, and the Hon. C. J. 
Jones — ^better known as Buffalo Jones — has been com- 
missione'd to carry out this purpose. No one has had 
more experience in capturing the buffalo than Mr. Jones, 
whose interest in the subject, after twenty years, is as 
keen as ever. 
Beside the two considerable herds in Montana, described 
in Forest and Stream of July 5 and 12, there are several 
other bunches of importance. Of these the most con- 
siderable is the Corbin herd in New Hampshire, said to 
be doing well, and perhaps next after that is the one of 
about forty-five head, belonging to Scotty Phillips, of 
the^ Cheyenne River Indian Reservation. There is an- 
other bunch of about twenty-six now on Antelope Island 
iiji the Great Salt Lake. 
The owner of this last bunch, Mr. Dooly, is apparently 
willing to part with his buffalo and the island to the Gov- 
ernment, to establish here a national buf¥alo reservation, 
and the subject certainly deserves consideration by the 
authorities. 
The island is described as about twenty miles long, 
three to five miles wide, and with an excellent water 
supply. The buffalo are said to be in good order, and to 
maintain themselves during summer and winter in ex- 
cellent condition. 
Mr. Dooly's herd is slowly increasing, and he has very 
wisely arranged to make some exchanges of stock with 
Dr. Frank Baker, of the National Zoological Park, and 
thus to infuse fresh blood into his herd.' Such exchanges 
of blood between different buffalo owners are of the very 
highest importance, for it is only in this way that the 
various small herds of buffalo' scattered over the country 
can be kept from deteriorating and finally running out. 
It has been suggested that if the Government should see 
fit to secure Antelope Island and Mr. Dooly's buffalo 
as the beginning of a national park in Utah, there is rooih 
also on the island for many animals of other species which 
are now becoming more and more scarce. 
FOREST FIRES. 
The danger of fire from the careless use of firearms in 
the woods is so great that the Secretary of the Interior 
has issued an order forbidding the carrying of firearms, 
particularly shotguns, in certain of the forest reserves 
without special permit. The order applies to San Gabriel, 
San Bernardino, San Jacinto reserves and others. Thou- 
sands of outers and campers wander over the ranges in 
the summer, and fires due to carelessness are constantly 
menacing the forests; on the San Gabriel reserve alone 
forty-five fires were extinguished last season by the 
forest rangers. 
Following the example of the Federal Government, 
some of the California reservoir companies which control 
large mountain territory have prohibited the carrying of 
firearms on their lands. It is estimated that more than a 
third of the disastrous mountain fires are due to ignited 
gun wads which kindle the dry brush. We now and again 
hear of Maijie tirpber land owners who object to hunting 
on their territory because they fear the starting of fires by 
sportsmen, tjut their apprehension is chiefly of the spread 
of conflagrations from carelessly bujlt or abandoned camp- 
fires. The average inexperienced camper lias no realiza- 
tion of the hazard attaphing to l|is fire building, but in 
M^iffe every \Voods visitor is by law attended by a guide, 
who underst§ndi thfi necessity of caution with the camp- 
Superintendent of Forests William F. Fox, of the New 
York Commission, issues these concise and comprehensive 
warnings for campers in the Adirondacks : 
Fires will be permitted for the purposes of cooking, warmtli and 
insect smudges; but before sucli fires are kindled, sufficient space 
around the spot where the fire is to be lighted must be cleared from 
all combvistible material; and before the place is abandoned, fires 
so lig-hted must be thoroughly quenched. 
All fires, other than those hereinbefore mentioned, are absolutely 
prohibited. 
Hunters and smokers are cautioned against allowing fires to 
originate from the use of firearms, cigars and pipes. Especial care 
should be taken that lighted matches are extinguished before 
throwing them down. All persons are warned that they will be 
held responsible for any damage or injury- to the forest which may 
result from their carelessness or neglect. 
Girdling and peeling bark from standing trees is prohibited. 
Fallen timber only may be used for firewood, 
WORK AND PLAY. 
It is not infrequently the ca:se that, at a certain stage 
of mature life when business cares multiply and worldly 
interests grow in importance, men, who were once prac- 
tical enthusiasts in matters pertaining to sport of the rod 
and reel, gun and dog, rifle and camp life, or yachting and 
canoeing, abandon entirely all active participation in sport, 
giving as a reason that the burdens of many responsibili- 
ties and active duties in business exact every moment of 
their time. They are "chained to business," but with 
chains which in the greater number of cases have links 
which are wholly fanciful. 
With some men of peculiar temperament, the business 
habit grows into a kind of business mania ; and possessed 
by this mania the victim's one reply to suggestions of 
recreation is, "I haven't time." 
Now the expression "haven't time" is in very many 
cases only another way of saying "don't take time." No 
man can righteously be so continuously busy that he can- 
not find time for something outside of his business. If 
he is working so hard as all that he is. doing more than 
he individually has any right to do ; and if all that he does 
must be done by some body, he should give some one 
else a chance to do some of it. He owes it to himself, and 
to others, to "have" time, which means to "take" time for 
some of the amenities of life. 
The fact is that the army of sportsmen— shooters, 
anglers, yachtsmen and others— is recruited from the 
ranks of the world's workers. The man you meet with a 
rod on the stream or in the fishing boat on the bay or 
casting his line into the surf, is there and then at play; 
but if you follow him to his home after his outing is over 
you will find him doing something else than reeling in 
fish, and ten to one doing it with the same zest he dis- 
played in his fishing. No rule can be made which will 
cover every case, but any experienced observer of anglers 
and their ways will bear out the assertion that those who 
accomplish most as fishermen are the very ones also who 
accomplish most in the work that is set before them. 
There is no substantial ground, then, for the conven- 
tional "I have no time to go fishing," because among those 
who do go fishing are those who in their working days are 
eVery bit as busy and as efficient and as successful as the 
stay-at-homes, and accomplish as much in the end — to 
make no account of what they get frbm the fields and the 
streams. 
Many tens of thousands of Eastern brook trout have 
been put out this year in Oregon streams; In Ontario 
during the last bass stocking season nearly 10,000 adult 
black bass were distributed to new waters covering a dis- 
tance of 400 miles. These two facts are indicative of the 
extent of the transfers of game fishes which are so rapid- 
ly enlarging the fishing resources of the States and 
Provinces. 
The recent enlargement of the Big Horn Forest Reserve 
in Sheridan county, Wyo., and the creation of the Yel- 
loAvstone Park F'orest Reserve, in Big Horn county, Wyo., 
bordering the Yellowstone National Park, have cut off a 
large tract of country on which sheep have been pastured, 
and the sheep men are holding indignation meetings to 
protest against such invasion of their . ancient rights and 
privileges. Concerning which it may be said that the 
sheep men do not own the country and the country is 
under no obligation to provide them fffee pasturage. They 
have no rights in thieir idfmtr sheep ranges which the 
public h bound to respect ; the pa*urin^ of sheep means 
the ruin of the country they ravage, and the sheep men 
should have been shut out from the public lands long ago. 
Didymus, Jacobstaff and the rest of them are giving us 
a delicious exhibition of human nature in their discussion 
of what real sport may be; for each one of them adopts 
as the criterion the particular form of recreation in which 
he himself finds pleasure. In this they are only. following 
in the steps of their forebears. It was so in Walton's 
time ; and when the author of the "Compleat Angler" set 
out to celebrate his own pastime, he ingeniously provided 
for his characters Auceps a falconer and Venator a hunts- 
man to contemn the contemplative man's recreation, in 
order that Piscator the angler might have occasion to 
praise it : • 
Ave. — Why, sir, I pray, of what fraternity arc you, that you are 
so angry with the poor otters? 
Pisc. — I am, sir, a brother of the angle, and therefore an enemy 
to the otter; for you are to note, that we anglers all love one 
another, and therefore do I hate the otter, both for my own and 
for their sakes who are of my brotherhood. 
Ven, — And I am a lover of hounds; I have followed many a 
pack of dogs many a mile, and heard many merry huntsmen made 
sport and scoff at anglers. 
Aug.— And I profess myself a falconer, and have heard many 
grave, serious men pity them, it is such a heavy, contemptible, 
dull recreation. 
Pisc. — You know, gentlemen, it is an easy thing to scoff at any art 
or recreation; a little wit mixed with ill-nature, confidence and 
malice, will do it; but though they often venture boldly, yet they 
are often caught, even in their own trap. 
Life is so short and the growth of trees so slow that 
the average person does not go in enthusiastically for 
planting a forest, provided he can do anything else with 
his land or his capital. But corporations are long lived 
and can look to the future ; and we see railroads putting 
out great plantations for their supply of ties. The Dia- 
mond Match Company, which consumes a vast amount of 
pine timber, has engaged in practical forestry on a large 
scale, to meet its future requirements. The company 
some years ago bought a tract of 30,000 acres in Massa- 
chusetts, the most of it denuded of trees, and planted it 
to pine. Recently it has acquired for the same purpose 
50,000 acres in Butte and adjoining counties in California, 
which are being planted to pine. The Diamond Match 
people manage their forests on the most advanced lines 
of European forestry development, cutting down only such 
trees as are of proper age and size, and replacing what 
have been cut with new ones. 
Greenwich, Conn., salt-water fishermen have a griev- 
ance against the non-residents who invade their sand 
beaches and dig the sandworm useful for fish bait; and 
the town fathers have been prevailed upon to enact a 
decree that any outsider caught digging worms in Green- 
wich sands shall forfeit to the treasury $5 and costs. Five 
diggers from New York and Jersey City were swooped 
down upon by the Greenwich constables last Saturday and 
for the 2,000 worms found in possession paid $23 fine and 
costs per man. The Greenwich law is presumably based 
upon a theory that the sandworm comes under the head 
of fish or game; but it will strike outsiders that the Con- 
necticut people are running the non-resident law system 
into the ground. 
Dr. Tarleton H. Bean has secured from the Appellate 
Division of the New York Supreme Court a reversal of 
the judgment of the lower court in his suit against former 
Park Commissioner Clausen for removal from the direc- 
torship of the New York Aquarium. As Commissioner 
Clausen's action in removing a competent official to make 
room for an ignorant office seeker was purely a political 
spoils trick, a final victory by Dr. Bean would be in line 
with the interests of good government. 
And now we hear of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland 
anglers providing themselves with tuna outfits from New 
York tackle houses, for their own use and for London 
anglers who are coming across the Atlantic this summer 
to make trial of the fishing for the big fish. If the de- 
velopment of the tuna as an angler's fish in Atlantic 
waters is thus to be an occasion of international rivalry, 
American fishermen should look to it that the credit for 
the first tuna taken with rod and reel does not go io the 
other sidci 
II 
That is an extraordinary instance of ruffed grouse, i^rn^ 
tjess which Mr. G, Hilfe relates to^ay. ' i 
