Forest and Stream 
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VOL. LXX.—No. 10. 
No. 346 Broadway, New York, 
A WEEKLY JOURNAL. 
Copyright. 1908, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
George Bird Grinnell, President, 
Charles B. Reynolds, Secretary. 
Louis Dean Speir, Treasurer. 
346 Broadway, 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 atjd Stream, Aug. 14, 1873. 
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK. 
On February 24, Senator Carter of Montana, 
(introduced in the Senate of the United States 
a bill to establish the Glacier National Park in 
his State. The bill sets aside forever as a public 
park and pleasure ground for the benefit and en¬ 
joyment of the people of the United States a 
region little known outside of Montana, but one 
of the most beautiful within the boundaries of 
the United States. 
' This is the rough and frozen country lying on 
both sides of the Rocky Mountains close to the 
boundary line and includes the upper St. Mary s 
Lake, the Chief Mountain and Belly Lakes, many 
glaciers on both sides of the range, McDonald’s 
: Lake, and the Kintla Lakes. The boundaries of 
• the proposed park are, on the south the right of 
, way of the Great Northern R. R., on the east, 
the Blackfeet reservation, on the north the Inter- 
1 national boundary line, and on the west a line 
' following the base of the Livingstone Range, so 
as to include in the park the mountainous land, 
while leaving the more valuable foot hills and 
■ bottom lands open to settlement. The extraor- 
■ dinary beauties of the natural features of the 
easterly slope of the Rocky Mountains within 
this territory have frequently been described in 
Forest and Stream, and in other publications; 
the west slope is less known but not less beauti¬ 
ful. 
Nearly every one of the series of parallel val¬ 
leys on the west slope of the Livingstone Range 
contains some remarkable feature; most of them 
have long chains of lakes, and are flanked on 
either side by high mountains. The Kintla Lakes 
are known for their beauty and lie among im¬ 
posing mountains. Not far to the east of them 
is the Agassiz Glacier, perhaps the largest single 
ice stream in the Rocky Mountains. 
The mountains included in this area are for the 
' most part covered with timber, much of it small, 
and all of it far from a market. The prin¬ 
cipal use of these mountains is as reservoirs to 
hold the melting snows and give them out grad¬ 
ually in summer to the land on both sides of the 
rantje. 
No country in the land is better adapted for a 
game refuge. It is already stocked with wild 
sheep, goats, deer and a few elk and moose. 
Properly protected it will be a most beautiful 
and attractive park, full of charming camping 
sites, with wonderful fishing and with abundant 
wild life. 
For a long time there has befen a strong senti¬ 
ment in Montana in favor of dedicating this 
beautiful region as a national park, and it is 
gratifying to learn that Senator Carter has in¬ 
troduced a bill to carry into effect the wishes of 
his constituents. It is to be hoped that action 
may soon be taken on the bill. 
Following the action of the North American 
Fish and Game Protective Association, in recom¬ 
mending the setting aside of 450 square miles of 
land in Southeastern British Columbia for the 
proposed Goat Mountain Park, we are informed 
that Mr. A. B. Williams, Provincial Game 
Warden, will journey through the region in a 
short time. He will investigate conditions and re¬ 
port to his government on the proposed estab¬ 
lishment of this great game reserve, and friends 
of the movement feel confident that favorable 
action will follow in due time. 
FOREST AND STREAM STORIES. 
Among the good things to be offered to For¬ 
est and Stream readers in the near future are 
many stories from contributors old and new, 
from many sections. 
Col. Wm. D. Pickett, who is wintering in Mex¬ 
ico, will continue his reminiscences of the old 
West, and promises a series of bear hunting ad¬ 
ventures which are quite without a parallel in 
the history of big game hunting in America. 
Among other papers to be published from time 
to time there is one by Dr. Chas. B. Reed, “Fol¬ 
lowing the Fur Trail” in the far North country. 
Harry A. Stone will contribute another paper 
relating to Tidewater Virginia, this one about 
fishing; and Charles T. Hopkin9 will tell of 
Florida fishing. 
There will be several stories by Edmund F. 
L. Jenner, a new series by J. W. Schultz, bits 
of Southern hunting lore by P. C. Tucker and 
other writers, and numerous contributions on 
■ the skunk, grouse and rattlesnake problems, 
which have been discussed so frequently in these 
columns. 
As the fishing season approaches, informational 
articles by Theodore Gordon, “Silver Mitchell, 
J. Alden Loring, Charles S. Taylor, Leopold A. 
Camacho and other well known writers will be 
printed, together with a series of reproductions 
of quaint old prints from the collection of Rus¬ 
sell W. Woodward. 
The Senate Committee on Military Affairs has 
reported favorably on a bill recently introduced 
in Congress providing for the purchase by the 
Federal Government of the site of Fort Lee, at 
the southern end of the Interstate Palisades 
Park. This is on a headland overlooking the 
Hudson River and directly opposite the site of 
Fort Washington. 
LAND OWNERS AND GAME KEEPERS. 
From owners of country places or of large es¬ 
tates the Forest and Stream frequently receives 
inquiry for men who can act as game keepers; 
perhaps merely as outdoor men, but often also 
as breeders of pheasants or wild fowl. In th'e 
same way we frequently have requests from 
game keepers to be put in the way of getting 
places where they can exercise their talents. 
Usually, however, these requests do not come 
to us at the same time, and thus would-be em¬ 
ployer and employee often fail to come together. 
Hereafter we shall be glad to keep a list of 
persons desiring employment in this way, and 
freely to supply names to any one who may wish 
to hire a game keeper or an outdoor man. We 
shall register the names of applicants for em¬ 
ployment and will do what we can to bring to¬ 
gether their names to the notice of persons de¬ 
siring to employ them. There will be no charge 
to any one in connection with this matter. 
In addition to the havoc wrought by the 
drouth in certain parts of New York State last 
summer, the disheartening news now comes that 
the flood of two weeks ago killed many fine trout 
in Sullivan county streams. An exceedingly cold 
season was followed by heavy rains which sent 
torrents of water down the frozen streams, with 
the result that some of the trout were swept 
away by the ice and killed. How many were lost 
it is of course impossible to estimate, but the 
fact that some of those found were large indi¬ 
cates the probability that small trout, finger- 
lings and fry did not all escape the rush of heavy 
ice in the rocky streams of the mountain coun¬ 
try. Certain favorable waters no doubt harbored 
large numbers of trout, but it is likely others 
furnished little, if any, protection against the 
first rush of ice. 
On Thursday of last week C. William Beebe, 
curatoy of birds of the New York Zoological 
Society, and Mrs. Beebe, sailed on the steamship 
Korona for Georgetown, British Guiana. From 
that town they will make their way to the upper 
waters of the Essequibo River, where they will 
study tropical bird life and collect material for 
another book similar to Mr. Beebe’s “Two Bird 
Lovers in Mexico.” 
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In the New York Assembly Mr. Hubbs has 
introduced an amendment to the game laws 
which provides for an open season for ducks, 
geese and swans of five months, ending with Feb¬ 
ruary ; in other words, adding January and 
February to the present open season. This bill 
is in the hands of the Fisheries and Game Com¬ 
mittee after second reading. It should be buried 
there. 
