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Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin 
velt's approval originated at the College ; second, because the wild 
life problem is primarily a forest or non -agricultural land problem, 
for which adequate provision had not previously been made. There 
was no experiment station devoted solely to the requirements of the 
14,000,000 acres of non-agricultural lands and waters in the State, 
although the agricultural needs were already fairly well supplied 
by experiment stations and farms ; third, because the College is a 
New York State institution bound by its charter to conduct research 
and education in all phases of forestry ; and fourth, because the 
Roosevelt Wild Life Station is solely a research institution, and 
is, therefore, more intimately related to education than to any 
administrative department of the State service. The State has 
already developed at Syracuse the largest and best equipped plant 
for diversified forestry education in America. 
The Duties of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station 
The duties of the Roosevelt Wild Life Station are to investigate, 
by all possible methods, our forest wild life : including the habits, 
life histories, methods of propagation and management of fish, 
birds, game, food and fur-bearing animals. The Station is thus 
primarily devoted to increasing our knowledge of forest wild life, 
by both outdoor and laboratory study which will develop new or 
improved methods of increasing the forest production of fish, fur 
and game animals and show their application to general forest man- 
agement. The Station, therefore, supplements all State adminis- 
trative agencies in forest wild life work and does not in practice 
duplicate that of any other State scientific department. Any inci- 
dental overlapping might even be beneficial if diflFerent methods of 
approach were used. 
Since the establishment of the Station it has taken over the 
forest wild life investigations already under way in the Department 
of Forest Zoology at the College and has enlarged and extended 
them. Thus the fish surveys of Oneida Lake, of Cranberry Lake 
in the Adirondacks, and of the w-aters of the Palisades Interstate 
Park and Erie County have been taken up or continued, and similar 
work will be extended to other parts of the State as rapidly as 
funds will permit. 
The investigations begun in the Adirondacks, on the relation of 
birds to the protection of the forest, have been extended to the 
Palisades Interstate Park. Hon. Louis Marshall, President of the 
