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the Roosevelt Station are further authorized by huv to cooperate 
with other agencies, so that the work is by no means Hniited to 
the boundaries of the State or to the use of State funds. Provision 
for this has been made by the law which enjoins the Trustees — 
" To enter into any contract necessary or appropriate for carrying 
out any of the purposes or objects of the college, including such 
as shall involve cooperation with an\- person, corporation, or associa- 
tion, or any department of the government of the State of New 
York or of the United States, in laboratory, experimental, investiga- 
tive or research work, and the acceptance from such person, corpora- 
tion, association, or department of the State or Federal government 
of gifts or contributions of money, expert service, labor, materials, 
apparatus, appliances or other property in connection therewith." 
[Laws of New York, chapter 42. Became a law March 7, 1918.] 
By these laws the Empire State has made provision to conduct 
forest wild life research upon a general and comprehensive basis, 
and on a plan as broad as that aj^proved hy Theodore Roosevelt 
himself. 
From its inception the Station has enlisted the cooperation of 
other State departments, first with the Commissioners of the Pali- 
sades Interstate Park, and later with the Commissioners of the 
Allegany State Park and the- State Conservation Commission on 
Park wild life problems. Special investigations have been conducted 
with the assistance of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, in the 
Palisades Interstate Park and on Oneida Lake. On Mount ]\Iarcy 
in the Adirondacks, timber line conditions were studied with the 
Ecological Society of America, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and 
the Vermont Agricultural Station. A fish survey of Erie County 
has been conducted with the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, 
the Erie County Society for the Protection of Birds, Fish and 
Game, and seven other allied organizations in that vicinity. Several 
Trustees of the College of Forestry have contributed funds for a 
special study of the Adirondack beaver which was made during the 
past summer. 
In addition to the cooperation with various State departments, 
private organizations and individuals within the State, studies now 
in progress in Yellowstone National Park have been made possible 
through the financial support of the Yellowstone Park Camps Com- 
pany and a grant from special friends, together with the assistance 
of the ,National Park Service and with the collaboration of several 
