Wild Life Management for Allegany Park 69 
There are today about thirty State game preserves in Penn- 
sylvania, including one in Tioga and three in Potter County, these 
counties being on the^New York State line. There are none in Erie, 
Warren or McKeen Counties, which are also adjacent to the State 
line and the Allegany State Park. To equip one of these preserves 
costs about $2,000, and its maintenance requires about $1,200. The 
system has completely restored good hunting in Pennsylvania, and 
would, with intensive care made possible by wardens, keepers, and 
police, properly justify a moderate fee for the enjoyment of these 
privileges. By such means a fund could be accumulated to pay at 
least in part, for the wild life maintenance. 
In the present Park there should be several of these preserves, 
particularly in the remote areas, because other park visitors must be 
fully protected from accidental shooting by hunters, or the fear of 
stray bullets. If tramping trails are laid out in the hunting preserve, 
they should therefore be closed during the hunting season. Shelters 
and camps should be provided for sportsmen in the hunting areas. 
The preserve method for maintaining game in the Allegany Park 
should be carefully adapted and applied to angling preserves. (See 
Kendall, '18; Adams, Hankinson and Kendall, '19). This may in- 
volve a system of rotation, by periodically opening and closing cer- 
tain areas, in order to keep the waters fully stocked. All game 
preserves should occupy the most remote and inaccessible parts of 
the Park if they are to be developed to the highest degree, as by 
this means the greatest acreage can be secured, with the least dis- 
turbance of the game by the visitors and with the least risk to human 
life by accidental shooting. The hunting season of course follows 
the summer season with its maximum number of Park visitors, but 
there should be absolute safety from hunters throughout the year. 
A Natural History Preserve 
In addition to the angling and hunting preserves just discussed, 
a large area of the Park should be set aside for a Natural History 
Preserve where no hunting or angling should be allowed, and where 
plants and animals should be carefully protected in as nearly a 
natural state as is possible (Adams, '13). This area should be 
devoted mainly to the scientific, educational and recreational inter- 
ests that cluster about natural history in all of its varied phases, as 
expressed in the popular regard for flowers, trees, birds, rocks, 
minerals and fossils. Tramping and boating should be encouraged 
and their needs amply provided for. (See Buxton, '84, preface; 
