Forest and Stream 
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j VOL. LXX.—No. 26. 
I No. 127 Franklin St., 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. 
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 PALISADES PARK. 
Another change has taken place in the man¬ 
agement of the Interstate Palisades Park. The 
- Commission has employed a number of men 
. who now patrol the property from its southern 
end, at Fort Lee, N. J., to its northern ter¬ 
minus, above Sneeden’s Landing, N. Y., a dis- 
‘ tance of more than fifteen miles, the full extent 
of the great narrow park that was long ago 
acquired by the States of New York and New 
Jersey, and which, so far, is in an absolutely 
natural state save only that the springs all along 
the Hudson’s shores have been rendered sani¬ 
tary and more efficient by piping. The patrol¬ 
men are in uniform, and they are distributed 
daily by the commission’s steam launch, which 
is always within signalling distance of one or 
more of the men. 
So far this magnificent park has been devoted 
to the use of small boat owners and pedestrians 
who, because they must be in the city at least 
five days in every week, cannot go far away for 
their recreation. For them the great park is 
ideal. The cliffs and the forest trees on their 
slopes furnish abundant shade, there are cold 
springs all along the shore, and the numerous 
beaches and the grassy spots near them furnish 
innumerable campsites and facilities for bath¬ 
ing and rest. 
On every Saturday afternoon and Sunday in 
summer the sight which greets the cruiser along 
the shore and the pedestrian who follows the 
hundred-year-old paths among the rocks is a 
pleasing one. Little camps are everywhere, 
jaunty boats are drawn *up on shore or cruise 
about, and scores of men, some of them with 
their families, bathe in the old river or rest in 
the shade, within sight of their homes, but ham¬ 
pered by few conventionalities of city life. 
There are camp sites for all, but the commis¬ 
sion is liberal and allows selection to a certain 
extent, so that parties can camp together so long 
as they assist in protecting the trees and ob¬ 
serving sanitary laws. The park is a boon to 
thousands of our people, and they appreciate 
it fully. 
If this system of patrolling the park is con¬ 
tinued throughout the warm season, it may be 
that in time wild life will be found there again. 
Only a few years ago both gray and red squir¬ 
rels were fairly abundant along the slopes, brown 
rabbits were seen in every sumac thicket, and 
a few foxes and woodchucks lived among the 
rocks. In the autumn and winter eagles fre¬ 
quented the crags; crows nested everywhere, and 
opossums were in evidence, while song and in¬ 
sectivorous birds were abundant. Alien hunters, 
however, raked the region thoroughly, taking 
everything that ran or flew; but now it seems 
that the birds, at least, are returning to the pro¬ 
tected area, for large numbers of them have 
been seen there throughout June, including some 
that are rare visitants. 
Protection would make this great wild park 
an ideal refuge and breeding place for birds and 
small game, and if the commission will keep 
men on watch in winter as well as in summer, 
nature will do the rest. 
NATIONAL COMMITTEES OF ANGLERS. 
The president of the National Association of 
Angling Clubs has taken another important step. 
This is in the appointment of a Committee on 
Protection and Propagation of Game Fishes and 
legislation relating thereto. All of the fourteen 
clubs affiliated with the National Association are 
represented in this committee, and it can fairly 
be considered a national one, as it represents the 
East, the Middle States, the- West, the South¬ 
west, and in one sense the South. Its members 
are men of standing, chosen because of their 
records for work in the cause of protection for 
our game fishes. In bringing them together as 
a working committee, their efforts will be made 
apparent in State and, let us hope, in national 
legislation. 
The National Association’s membership of 
clubs has almost doubled since it organization 
two years ago. Its influence has been felt in 
certain directions, and its power for good is 
being widened steadily but surely. Only a short 
time ago we printed the announcement of the 
appointment by its president of a National Com¬ 
mittee on Standards of Sportsmanship. These 
two committees deserve the moral support and 
assistance of every gentle angler in the Union. 
Forest and Stream has received a number of 
communications recently, some of which bear 
no signatures, others are signed with initials 
only, and on still others the addresses are lack¬ 
ing. Photographs, too, have been sent with • 
out any explanation of what they represent and 
with no addresses of the owners. We have also 
written to several persons seeking information, 
but these letters have been returned to us by 
the postal authorities, as the addresses given us 
were not sufficient for them to find the writers. 
If any of our good friends have written to us 
but have failed to receive a reply, perhaps this 
explanation will enlighten them. 
A HORRIBLE EXAMPLE. 
The Canadian authorities are profiting by the 
bad example which we Americans have set them, 
and the time is not distant when the people on 
our northern border will be far ahead of us 
in all matters of game protection. Already they 
have established buffalo herds far larger than 
anything that we can hope to have for many 
years; coming into the United States and buy¬ 
ing up under our very noses the herd that we 
ought to have retained for ourselves. 
In forest preservation their work is being con¬ 
ducted on broad lines and will undoubtedly be 
continued on similar lines. 
Now they have awakened to the importance 
of preventing the continued destruction of large 
game in the North by hide and head hunters, 
and the Commissioner at Dawson in the Yukon 
has issued a proclamation that the slaughter of 
large game must stop. Hereafter until further 
notice no moose, caribou, mountain sheep or 
other such large game shall be killed in the 
territory of Yukon except by miners, prospectors 
and Indians, and for their own use. With this 
order will go its enforcement by that efficient 
body of men, the Northwest Mounted Police. 
It is a little mortifying to citizens of the 
United States that this country should serve as 
a horrible example of blundering short-sighted¬ 
ness to its nearest neighbor, but until the citizens 
of the United States learn something of the 
value of the natural resources of the country 
we must expect to be held up as a warning to 
others. 
While destructive floods and windstorms have 
wrought havoc in the West and Southwest dur¬ 
ing June, in numerous parts of the East dry, hot 
weather has prevailed. The streams, which were 
kept above their normal level throughout May, 
ran down rapidly and became clear and warm, 
so that the trout fishing was not much more satis¬ 
factory than it had been during the first six 
weeks of the open season. The conditions for 
bass fishing, which opened in Pennsylvania and 
New York in mid June, were favorable in 
streams like the Delaware and Susquehanna. 
Salt water fishing in the waters near by New 
York city has so far been extremely unsatisfac¬ 
tory, but better reports are looked forward to 
with confidence by that vast army of men and 
women who angle in the bays and inlets through¬ 
out the summer. 
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On June 14 Hiram H. Walker died at his 
home in Lockport, N. Y. His age was sixty- 
four years. For three years Mr. Walker was 
president of the New York State Forest, Fish 
and Game League and was a prominent worker 
in the cause of fish and game protection. 
