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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1910. 
VOL. LXXIV—No. 10. 
No. 127 Franklin St., New York. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1909, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnkll, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Sfeir, Treasurer, 
127 Franklin Street. New York. 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful interest 
in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate a refined 
taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THE GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 
The bill to establish the Glacier National Park 
has passed the Senate and is now before the 
House of Representatives. It should be acted on 
by that body with as little delay as possible. 
The bill sets aside a considerable tract of 
rough mountain land on both sides of the Con¬ 
tinental Divide and lying between the interna¬ 
tional boundary on the north and the Great 
Northern Railway on the south. The region is 
from five to ten thousand feet high and is 
scantily timbered. The mountains are cut by 
deep glacial valleys in which lie lakes of extra¬ 
ordinary beauty, well stocked with fish. On the 
mountain tops at the heads of streams which 
feed these lakes are considerable glaciers, the 
remnants of those which in an earlier time 
ploughed their way down the mountainsides and 
carved out the deep valleys now occupied by the 
rivers and the lakes. On the eastern slope of 
the mountains within this area there is but little 
timber. On the western side there' is more tim¬ 
ber, but on neither slope is there any land sus¬ 
ceptible to cultivation. 
Formerly this was a great game country. Here 
the Indians used to come to hunt the mountain 
bison; in the thickets along the streams in these 
dark valleys the moose used to wander; on the 
bald rounded hills blown free from snow by the 
chinook winds fed elk and black-tailed deer; 
whitetails lived in the willow thickets along the 
streams; antelope pastured on the great flats 
close to the mountains, while wild sheep and 
wild goats still clamber over the rough peaks 
or stamp out beds in the shaly slide rock. Five 
species of grouse are found within this region, 
and when the yellowing leaves and cooler breezes 
of autumn warn us that the time of hard cold 
is near, down from the north po.pr hordes of 
wildfowl, darkening the lakes and filling the air 
with tumultuous clamor. 
It is as a reservoir supplying waters to irri¬ 
gate the dry plains east and west of the moun- 
tain| that this glacier park has its greatest value, 
and" tor this reason the park should without de¬ 
lay be set aside and preserved. 
The people of Montana are anxious that this 
bill should pass. Scientific men, tourists and 
hunters who have visited the region are enthu¬ 
siastic about it. It has once passed both houses 
of Congress and we trust will so pass again, 
and under circumstances which will permit it 
to be sent to the President for his approval. 
The bill is now in charge of Hon. C. N. Pray, 
Congressman from Montana. To bring it to a 
speedy vote it is very desirable that each reader 
interested in the preservation of this great tract 
should write Mr. Pray, urging him to press the 
bill to a vote, and should also write to the Con¬ 
gressman from his own district requesting his 
interest and favorable action on the measure. 
There can be no objection to the bill on any 
ground, save possibly that of some supposed ex¬ 
pense in connection with the maintenance of the 
park; but the expenditure of any money may be 
put off for years. The important thing at pres¬ 
ent is to have the park authorized by law. Here 
is an opportunity to establish a grand reservoir 
and game refuge—to accomplish one of the ob¬ 
jects for which the readers of Forest and 
Stream have been working for many years. Let 
everyone now put his shoulder to the wheel and 
push. 
LET AFRICA KEEP ITS OWN. 
Complaint is often made by those interested 
in game preservation and increase of the lack of 
interest in this subject displayed by the public. 
Yet it does not seem difficult for any writer who 
may have astonishingly impracticable views about 
it to find a periodical in which to exploit his 
ideas. Not long ago some enthusiast who de¬ 
clared that the game of North America must 
shortly be exterminated, advocated the capturing 
of many buffalo, elk, mountain sheep and goats 
and deer which should be sent to South America 
to be turned out there to fatten, flourish and live 
forever. Red deer have been imported from 
Europe and set free in the Adirondacks; the 
capture of chamois in Switzerland for the Rocky 
Mountains has been urged. 
Recently a writer, spoken of as a “soldier of 
fortune,” has contributed to New York periodi¬ 
cals an article advocating the importation of a 1 
number of African antelope, the giraffe and the 
zebra to be taken west and turned loose on what 
he calls “vast tracts of our lonely deserts.” 
It is possible that this writer imagines the 
western country to be still in the condition 
that it was when Lewis and Clark crossed it, 
but if he will go to the West and travel over 
these “lonely deserts” he will find them in most 
places traversed by well beaten roads dotted 
with fertile farms, and his progress in any par¬ 
ticular direction interrupted by a succession of 
wire fences* The American people have settled 
up the Western country; they have also thor¬ 
oughly attended to the extermination of our 
native game over most of it, and can be relied 
on to kill off introduced game as fast as any¬ 
body will turn it loose. The ranchman, the 
cattleman and the sheepman have filled up the 
so-called deserts, and domestic animals have 
taken the place of wild ones. If parks or pre¬ 
serves where hunting is forbidden and wild ani¬ 
mals may live unmolested are to be established, 
let them be stocked with native game. 
HETCH-I 1 ETCHY VALLEY. 
The attempt of a section of the residents of 
San Francisco to secure for the uses of that 
municipality a portion of the Yosemite National 
Park has again been checked. It will be recalled 
that the city of San Francisco wished to use the 
Hetch-FIetchy valley, a portion of the Yosemite 
Park, as a source of water supply, and that this 
attempt has been earnestly opposed by multi¬ 
tudes of people. Forest and Stream takes the 
ground that a national park, set aside for the 
benefit of the public, should never be diverted to 
the uses of a small fraction of that public. 
Last autumn the Secretary of the Interior di¬ 
rected the Geological Survey and the Reclama¬ 
tion Service to investigate this question and to 
learn whether a water supply for San Francisco 
and other cities might not be had without inter¬ 
fering with the Hetch-Hetchy valley. The Sur¬ 
vey reported that there were other available 
sources which were ample, and the Secretary 
has therefore decided that the Mayor and super¬ 
visors of San Francisco must before May 1 
present evidence, showing that the use of the 
Hetch-Hetchy valley is absolutely essential to 
San Francisco for its water supply, or else the 
valley will not be disturbed. 
The Osborn bill, now under consideration in 
the Maryland Legislature, provides for three 
power boats and suitable crews, which it is in¬ 
tended shall patrol the fishing and wildfowling 
resorts of the State. Each vessel, the measure 
provides, shall have three officers and four men, 
so that the increase in the force of game and 
fish protectors, as proposed, will be a material 
one if the measure becomes law. Another bill 
would permit the shooting of crippled ducks 
from power boats in certain waters of Chesa¬ 
peake Bay. 
Our cover picture this week is of a brook in 
New Jersey in February. In size and volume of 
water it is like a great many of the brooks that 
were famous in the days of Frank Forester; 
indeed, it is probable he fished it. To-day it is 
one of the numerous streams that have been 
stocked with brook trout, and if the legal length 
limit is observed by anglers, these nearby streams 
will again become famous. 
The Nashville papers state that vandals have 
killed a number of the deer confined in Belle 
Meade Park, near that Tennessee city. These 
deer were purchased by the people through in ¬ 
scription and presented to the State foi the pm- 
pose of raising a herd to be distributed tnroue fl¬ 
out the State in due time and thus replenish 
its depleted stock of wild deer. 
