Forest and Stream 
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11 1918 
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[ VOL. LXXIV.-No. 24. 
No. 127 Franklin St., New York, 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright, 1310, by Forest and Stream Publishing C«k 
George Bixd Gxinnell, President, 
Chaklks B. Rxynolds, Secretary, 
Louis Dean Srxix, 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, 187J. 
CANADA’S NEW FOREST RESERVE. 
\Y hile we in the United States are shouting 
jubilations over the establishment of the Glacier 
National Park, the Dominion of Canada is 
quietly going ahead and establishing new parks 
and reserves, which are of the utmost import¬ 
ance to the northern half of the continent. 
The decision to administer the Waterton Lakes 
Park as one of the series of Dominion parks en¬ 
larges the protected area over which the Glacier 
National Park game may range, and the estab¬ 
lishment of the great forest reserve of more 
than 14,000 square miles on the eastern slope of 
the Rocky Mountains adds a vast territory, over 
much of which absolute protection is assured. 
The Rocky Mountains Park, of 4,500 square 
miles f and the Jasper Forest Park with an area 
of 5,000 square miles—both within this- territory 
—exceed any parks that lie within the area of 
the United States. 
In these parks, which are governed by the 
provisions of the Dominion Parks regulations, 
hunting and shooting are prohibited, and they 
are thus actually game refuges, in which for all 
time those animals indigenous to them, and such 
others as may be successfully introduced, may 
live undisturbed, and may be forever a joy to 
the traveler who enters their boundaries and 
views their life. 
English-speaking sportsmen all over the coun¬ 
try, whether owing allegiance to Great Britain or 
to the United States, may rejoice that Mr. Frank 
Oliver, the Dominion Minister of the Interior, 
is a man of such broad views as to recognize 
the importance of preserving untouched some of 
those large portions of the great territory of the 
West as yet unoccupied by the settler. The pur¬ 
poses of the Canadian Government as explained 
in another column are very suggestive and 
worthy of Careful reading and consideration. 
TO PROTECT NATIONAL PARKS. 
About a year ago there was established in Cali¬ 
fornia a Society for the Preservation of National 
Parks, with John Muir as president, and there 
has recently been established in Boston an East¬ 
ern branch of this society. 
The effort on the part of certain interests in 
the municipality of San Francisco to seize, in be¬ 
half of that city, a portion of the Yosemite Na¬ 
tional Park was the cause of the formation of 
the parent body, with which the Eastern branch 
proposes to act. The objects are announced as 
being to bring together for active co-operation 
all those who oppose unnecessary invasions of 
national parks by private interests; to send a 
repiesentative to Washington to support actively 
the movement to revoke the permit to use the 
Hetch Hetchy Valley as a water reservoir, and 
to contribute so far as possible to the expenses 
incurred by the California society. 
The California association has already sent to 
Washington an engineer familiar with the Hetch 
Hetchy Valley to discuss the use as a reservoir 
of a part of that National Park at a hearing be¬ 
fore the Secretary of the Interior. 
An association such as this may be of the 
greatest public service and ought to have a large 
membership East and West. It should be nation 
wide. This is the view held by those who are 
organizing the Eastern branch. It is to be geo¬ 
graphically as broad as possible, and is to re¬ 
ceive members from the whole country, from 
the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi Valley. 
Those who recall the struggles that independ¬ 
ent and self-constituted protectors of certain of 
our National parks had to go through in the 
early days will recognize that there is a broad 
field of usefulness before the new society. 
USES OF SAWDUST. 
Spruce and pine sawdust, thrown aside by our 
mi Ilmen as worthless, commands a steady price 
m Norway. There it is ground into hokmehl 
or wood flour, kiln dried, packed in sacks made 
le„m mer H Ca K, f0r - the PUrp0Se ’ and to lino- 
5 7 r d astlng P ow der manufacturers. It 
t^ S , ° r ab ° Ut tWdVe d ° IlarS per ton ’ and in 
1907 the exports of this material from Norway 
were valued at nearly $80,000. 
In France a new process, which is said to have 
proved successful, is employed in extracting an 
excellent grade of alcohol from sawdust. About 
VA gallons of alcohol and 42 pounds of acetic 
acid are extracted from each long ton of saw¬ 
dust, while the residue is sold for fuel in bri¬ 
quette form. 
As the latter process is patented in the United 
States, it is to be hoped that it will be placed in 
operation here, and that the sawdust now thrown 
into trout streams will be utilized for a more 
worthy purpose. 
Henry T. Root, who has resigned from the 
Board of Inland Fish Commissioners of Rhode 
Island, was a member of that body for twenty- 
seven years. The vacancy has been filled by the 
appointment of Senator Isaac H. Clarke, of 
Jamestown. 
The remarkable increase in the Grenfell rein¬ 
deer herd in Newfoundland and Labrador spells 
success for the experiment. Dr. Grenfell and his 
friends are now urging the Government to ap¬ 
propriate money for the importation of more 
of these useful animals. They claim that in 
Labrador there is room and food enough for 
3,000,000 reindeer, but point out the fact that the 
native dogs must first be restrained from run¬ 
ning wild, else further efforts to stock the coun¬ 
try with reindeer will prove futile. The dogs’ 
usefulness is offset by the depredations they com¬ 
mit, and coincident with the educating of the 
people to the greater economic value of the deer, 
efforts are being made to wean them away from 
their hereditary faith in their savage dogs. 
Whereas these require large quantities of food 
in a region where food is scarce, the deer fur¬ 
nish milk, meat and clothing, are docile and 
strong if not swift as beasts of burden. Mosses 
on which they subsist and thrive are abundant 
on the Labrador, and it is believed by some that 
these hardy beasts, crossed with the caribou, will 
produce a superior animal. 
The large and constantly growing class of 
persons interested in bird and animal protection 
cannot fail to be interested in the movement to 
express appreciation of the great services to this 
cause performed by William Dutcher, the presi¬ 
dent of the National Association of Audubon 
Societies. It is more than a generation ago that 
Mr. Dutcher took up this work, in which his 
interest has been continuous and growing. As 
time went by, and the importance of the work 
increased, so Mr. Dutcher’s interest increased. 
Energy, persistence and unswerving steadfastness 
have marked the whole movement, and it may 
fairly be said that Mr. Dutcher has done it all, 
for ever since the movement became more than 
the effort of individuals, he has directed it. We 
believe that many of our readers will be glad to 
contribute to this testimonial. 
The omnibus game bill, now awaiting Gover¬ 
nor Hughes’ approval, contains numerous re¬ 
forms to bring about which the sportsmen, in¬ 
dividually and collectively, have labored dili¬ 
gently for many years. The bill provides for 
game refuges. It makes the shooting season 
for the entire State for ducks, geese, brant and 
swan Sept. 16 to Jan. 10, both inclusive, with 
possession to Jan. 15; and for all deer the six 
weeks ending with October, except on Long 
Island, where there shall be no deer shooting 
during the next three years. It prohibits the 
purchase and sale of grouse, woodcock and 
quail taken within the State, and the sale of 
black bass so taken. It provides for better pro¬ 
tection against forest fires, and increases the 
penalties for dynamiting waters inhabited by 
game fish. 
