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NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1910. 
1 VOL. LXXlV.-No. 21. 
I No. 127 Franklin St., New York. 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1910, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
Geoege Bird Geinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Speie, Treasurer, 
127 Franklin Street, New York. 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL 
will be to studiously promote a healthful in¬ 
terest in outdoor recreation, and to cultivate 
a refined taste for natural objects. 
—Forest and Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
THE GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 
The President has signed the bill to- estab¬ 
lish the Glacier National Park, which has thus 
become a law. This is the third in size of our 
national parks, being exceeded only by the Yel¬ 
lowstone and the Yosemite parks. It is the fifth 
of the larger reservations of this character. 
The establishment of this new national pleas¬ 
ure ground is a matter for congratulation to all 
Americans. Here is a region of extraordinary 
beauty—an area nearly half the size of the Yel¬ 
lowstone Park—set aside forever as a pleasure 
ground for the benefit of the people. If it lacks 
some of the attractions—as hot springs, spouting 
geysers and tremendous waterfalls—possessed by 
the Yellowstone, it has on the other hand great 
glaciers, broad snowfields, towering peaks and a 
fauna distinctly its own and different in many 
respects from that of the Yellowstone. Lying 
on the northern border of the United States, its 
area as a preserve is likely before long to be 
increased by the establishment of a park in the 
Dominion of Canada which will adjoin it, and 
will thus form a great international game pre¬ 
serve—the second lying along our border 
Forest and Stream, in whose columns was 
first described the region now the Glacier Na¬ 
tional Park, has for years urged the desirability 
of protecting this region and its wild inhabitants 
by setting it aside as a National Park. 
It is a great satisfaction that this good end 
is at last accomplished, and to feel that in the 
case now of the Glacier Park, as twenty years 
ago in the case of the Yellowstone Park, we 
have been able to assist in bringing about legis¬ 
lation which will be of lasting usefulness to the 
country at large. 
It is proper that the outdoor public should 
know to whom in large measure it owes the 
establishment of this park. Although the idea 
of setting it aside was advanced many years ago, 
the active mover in the legislation was Senator 
Thomas H. Carter, of Montana, who introduced 
the bill. To him, with Senator Joseph M. Dixon 
and Congressman Charles N. Pray the thanks of 
the public are chiefly due. Under the lead of 
the Boone and Crockett Club, not a few associa¬ 
tions and individuals have worked hard to in¬ 
form the public and the representatives of the 
public as to the importance of setting aside this 
national park, and each such association and 
each individual is entitled to a share of the 
public gratitude. 
To receive credit for good work well done is 
pleasant, but a reward far higher than any praise 
that can be given is the deep satisfaction that 
comes from the consciousness of having served 
the public well, of having had a part in bringing 
about results whose value will long outlast our 
brief time and our petty activities. 
THE AXE IN THE BACK WOODS. 
There is much to be learned in reading be¬ 
tween the lines of Manly Hardy’s narrative. He 
comments lightly on hardships of no small mag¬ 
nitude, yet there are few seasoned woods travel¬ 
ers of to-day who would care to “rough it” as 
these young men did during the autumn they 
spent in trapping. The wilder portions of Maine 
were at that time backwoods indeed. There 
were no surgeons nor physicians and few supply 
stations within many miles, and when an emer¬ 
gency arose, it had. to be met with an abundance 
of courage, frequently with heroic treatment. 
The skill of Maine woodsmen in the use of the 
axe is well illustrated in the text and the draw¬ 
ings. It is difficult for one who has not seen it 
done to believe that these pioneers actually pro¬ 
vided everything necessary to their well-being 
while in the woods with the axe. They went 
in with a rifle, an axe, a blanket, a few cook¬ 
ing utensils and plain food, and from the trees 
hewed out the rest. • 
WORK THAT SHOULD BE DONE. 
Two matters of paramount importance should 
engage the especial attention of all sportsmen in 
the United States and Canada. The first of 
these has to do with the rigid enforcement of 
existing game laws and the other with the estab¬ 
lishment of game refuges. If sportsmen were 
sufficiently interested, and would bend all their 
energies to making their fellow citizens realize 
the importance of these two subjects, we should 
soon see results. It would not be long before 
adequate legislation would be enacted by the 
States and by the general Government as to the 
establishment of game refuges, and such legisla¬ 
tion would come near solving many of our prob¬ 
lems. 
The enforcement of law is a local matter 
which depends on the people of the towns, coun¬ 
ties and the States. If the local sportsmen are 
sufficiently interested to watch their local war¬ 
dens and to insist on their enforcing the law; 
or—if the local warden is slack about it—to 
write to the State authorities explaining the 
warden’s lapses and giving specific details of 
day, date and place where any warden has failed 
to do his duty, the State authorities and the local 
wardens will soon awake to the fact that duty 
must be performed or else that room must be 
made for someone who will perform it. 
The matter, after all, resolves itself into -the 
question of whether the warden by his inactivity 
shall tire out the sportsmen, or whether the 
sportsmen by their energy shall infuse activity 
into the warden. 
It is within the power of every citizen of 
the United States to exercise an influence in 
his own community, and by talking and corres¬ 
pondence with other residents of the State to 
make an impression on the State authorities, great 
and small. Each of us may thus become a power 
for good in these matters. Many of our readers 
are very much in earnest about this. They should 
try to do effective work for the preservation of 
our wild life. 
In the matter of game refuges, the Dominion 
of Canada is far ahead of the United States. 
Hon. Frank Oliver, the Minister of the Interior 
for Canada, is a man whose broad mind enables 
him to see the economic importance of protect¬ 
ing the natural things of the country. The 
Minister of the Interior of Canada has far 
wider powers than the Secretary of the Interior 
on this side of the line, and he is, therefore, 
able to do things not to be accomplished by that 
official in the United States, where, except in 
the territories and on Government land, the 
Secretary of the Interior can do little. 
Fortunately the fire which consumed a num¬ 
ber of buildings in Schuetzen Park, in Union 
Hill, N. J., last week, did not destroy the shoot¬ 
ing pavilion and the rifle ranges. Repairing and 
rebuilding were ordered at once by the directors 
of the Plattdeutsche Volksfest Verein, owners 
of the property, with the understanding that 
these are to be completed before May 29, when 
the great rifle tournament of the National 
Schuetzenverein is to be opened in the park. 
The pavilion and the rifle ranges are the most 
complete of any in the country, and had they 
been destroyed, the owners could scarcely have 
provided adequate substitutes in time for the 
national tourney. 
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Forest fires are burning over large tracts of 
land in Northern Wisconsin and in Minnesota, 
where a drouth has rendered everything so dry 
that underground fires have proved very difficult 
to handle. The press dispatches from towns and 
villages in the districts affected seem strangely 
out of season in May, when copious rains are to 
be expected. Here in the East the large streams 
are high and trout fishing is dependent upon 
more favorable conditions. 
n 
As if the ouananiche had not a sufficiency of 
names now, a new one has been coined for it in 
the press dispatches, which term it the non-sea¬ 
going salmon. More work of the “ultra marine 
reporter,” no doubt. 
