SUGGESTIONS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF 
FOREST WILD LIFE IN THE ALLEGANY 
STATE PARK, NEW YORK 
Bv Dk. Charles C. Adams. Director 
Contents . 
1. Introduction. 
2. Angling and Hunting Preserves. 
3. A Natural History Preserve. 
a. A Wild Life Exhibit. 
b. A Natural History Sanctuary. 
4. A " Roosevelt Field Station," for the Roosevelt Wild Life 
Forest Experiment Station. 
5. Reference List. 
Introduction 
The establishment of preserves for wild life and the purposes of 
natural history has made much progress in America during 
the past quarter of a century. At present there is urgent need of 
greatly increasing their number, and an equally acute need of scien- 
tific study of the Ijest m.ethods of managing them ; and of teach- 
ing the public how most thoroughly to understand and benefit by 
them. Reservations cannot be simply established and then left to 
themselves, because by normal increase their wild life may soon 
1)ecome a menace to itself and may even defeat the purpose for 
which the preserves are established. Wild life must today be intel- 
ligently supervised ; and it is quite a difficult applied science to 
maintain it in a normal wild state in this modern world. Those won- 
derful Louisiana preserves, now that they are created, must be care- 
fully studied scientifically or they will not, in the long run, be a 
success. W'e hear much more about setting apart reservations than 
we do of their proper care and use ; the first step of course is to 
establish them, and then comes the problem of their utilization. 
The Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station was estab- 
lished primarily to investigate just such problems, and since its 
beginning has devoted itself to such investigations. 
The Roosevelt Wild Life Station has reason to take a special 
interest in the Allegany State Park because of its part in the move- 
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