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even to songbirds, the parks and other public properties in cities often sup- 
port this wild life in abundance. To this awakening interest in the preserva- 
tion of animals is now added the desire to preserve the wild flowers. 
This desire to protect and preserve our native animals is well expressed 
in President Roosevelt’s reference to the subject when discussing the forest 
preserves in his message to Congress: “Certain of the forest reserves should 
also he made preserves for the wild forest creatures. All of the reserves 
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should be better protected from fires. Many of them need special protec- 
tion because of the great injury done by live stock, above all by sheep. 
The increase in deer, elk and other animals in the Yellowstone Park shows 
what may be expected when other mountain forests are properly pro- 
tected by law and properly guarded. Some of those areas have been so de- 
nuded of surface vegetation by overgrazing that the ground-breeding birds, 
including grouse and quail, and many mammals, including deer, have been 
