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Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin 
Allegany State Park, and it became a law in May, 1921, with tlie 
signature of Governor Nathan A. Miller. 
The Roosevelt Station has thus, from the inception of the plans 
which resulted in the establishment of the Park, been actively inter- 
ested in its progress. As but few working plans for wild life parks 
have been published, and as new parks are continually being estab- 
lished throughout the country, the publication of these suggestions 
is intended to assist the men and women promoting them. It should 
be understood that these plans were formulated to meet a specific 
case, and yet their application is widespread. At the end of this 
paper I give a copy of the law under which the Allegany Park is 
established and to be conducted (see pp. 75—81); and references 
to publications that will be of special value to those interested in 
this phase of wild life work. 
It should be borne in mind that throughout the plans for this 
Park it is intended to practice modem reforestation of the much 
cut-over land, and establish there a forest so managed as to pro- 
duce a permanent yield of timber, except in the area reserved for 
the Natural History Sanctuary and in the suggested experimental 
" Roosevelt Field Station." Its system of management is intended 
to harmonize with the fullest and best public use of this large forest 
area. The plan will provide not only for the permanent supply of 
timber needed for construction of buildings, for camp-fires, and other 
purposes, and will shelter many kinds of plants and animals native 
in such a forest, but it will also provide the beautiful natural appear- 
ing woodland background desired for a camping park. In time, 
such a forest will become an important source of revenue for main- 
tenance of the Park, and it should be made an example showing how 
all uses of the forest can be harmonized when intelligently organized. 
The Legislature has authorized the establishment of the Allegany 
State Park in Cattaraugus County, about seventy miles south of Buf- 
falo, near the State line, in the great bend of the Allegheny River 
as it swings up into New York from Pennsylvania in the vicinity 
of Salamanca. This is a part of the Appalachian plateau, lying at 
a level of about two thousand feet above the sea, while entrenched 
in this upland lies the beautiful open valley of the Allegheny 
River, flowing about a thousand feet below. Many of the 
tiibutary streams, such as Quaker and Wolf Runs, are fine 
trout brooks. The whole region was once densely forested, but 
has been cut over repeatedly. An occasional bear or deer is now 
