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life If, without being- impertinent, I might make some 
expression of my hopes, it would be that this commemorative influ- 
ence of Rooseveh might spread far beyond New York and New 
England into those States of unappreciated natural Ijeauty, Georgia, 
Alabama and Louisiana, in time to save their splendid magnolia 
forests from destruction." 
That the Station should n jt lie hmited to New York State is the 
opinion expressed by many persons who are unaware that this fea- 
ture is already provided for by law. 
An editorial in Forest and Stream reads thus: 
" Three years ago the authorities of the ,New York State College 
of Forestry sulimitted to Colonel Theodore Roosevelt plans for an 
inquiry into the wild life of the New York forests, and received the 
promise of Mr. Roosevelt's hearty support and that of a number 
of his friends and associates. The establishment of the Roosevelt 
\\'ild Life Forest Experiment Station marks the first active step 
in a movement .... likely to go far in the United States. 
. . . . The work of the Roosevelt Experiment Station will thus 
consist of experiment, investigation, and general research into the 
wild life which occupies millions of acres of land and water. . . . 
For some years work of this character has been urged upon the 
Interior Department, and in a tentative way has even been under- 
taken by the, National Parks Service The work that such 
an experiment station may do is almost limitless, and its possibili- 
ties are as yet quite beyond the range of our imagination." (Vol. 
89, p. 409, August, 1919). 
In concluding this lirief account of the history of this Roosevelt 
Memorial, too much emphasis cannot be put upon its unique fea- 
tures. It is the only existing ^Memorial that has been built upon 
a plan that had Theodore Roosevelt's personal approval. There is 
unanimous agreement among those who were closest to Roosevelt, 
and who shared his interests in wild life, that this is the most appro- 
priate kind of Memorial to him. The State of New York is the 
guardian or trustee of this Memorial, has made a comprehensive 
plan for its future development, and now awaits the execution of this 
plan in a manner worthy of her greatest citizen. 
