
Forest and Stream 
A Weekly Journal. 
GEORGE Birp GRINNELL, President, 
346 Broadway, New York. 
CHARLES B. REYNOLDsS,- Secretary. 
346 Broadway, New York. 
Copyright, 1907, by Forest and Stream Publishing Co. 
Louis DEAN Sperir, Treasurer 
346 Broadway, New York. 



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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 ASHOKAN RESERVOIR. 
THERE are few trout fishermen in and about 
New York city who do not go, at least once dur- 
ing the open season, to the Esopus Creek, in 
the Catskill Mountains. In the this 
stream is in reality a creek, but in spring it de- 
summer 
serves the title river, for it is broad and swift 
and hard to wade. Once 
brook trout, and then for 
it was famous for its 
a time it was said to 
be fished out, but with the introduction of rain- 
bow and brown trout it attracted attention again, 
and for a series of years has produced its creels 
of rainbows and its occasional huge brown trout. 
All the way fram Brown's Station up to Big 
Indian, and even further into the mountains, it 
has furnished good fly-fishing, and its feeders 
can always be depended on for goodly trout. 
Add to these facts the others that the region 
is a beautiful one and its people good to know, 
and it understood that 
ceived with keen regret the announcement that 
the city of New York purposed to convert a 
will be anglers re- 
large part of the region into an immense reser- 
Ds a 
with which to enlarge its 
The preliminary work is well under way, and 
voir water supply. 
the carrying out of the project, as well as its 
fulfillment, will cut off an important part of the 
trout fishing water. ; 
But the cloud is not all black. - In the 
course of time the immense lake will be- 
come a fishing resort—one of the nearest to 
and above it the mountain streams will 

the city 
still be available, and if anything the fishing in 
Mr. 
pleasingly 
in another 
column, full 
knowledge of plan and detail of the project, 
what it means to the-residents and the anglers, 
and what may be expected in the future. 
them will improve. Sherwood, 
has written and with 

CAN WE SAVE THE HEATH HEN? 
THERE is 
that in the 
than eighty or 
heath hen, the bird which for generations rep- 
and to 
something melancholy in the thought 
whole world there exist not more 
one hundred individuals .of the 
laymen the 
We have all 
of us read many extermination 
of the buffalo, but that 
of the most splendid of North American grouse 
resented to ornithologists 
prairie chicken of North America. 
articles on the 
few have realized one 
is now on the very verge of extinction. 
Every sportsmian and every nature lover will 
with sympathy the 
most recent observations on the heath hen which 
read feelings of profound 
we are now publishing, and will earnestly hope 
that the plans for the protection and re-estab- 
lishment in goodly numbers of this splendid bird 
The 
may be successfully carried out. stock on 
NEW YORK, SATURDAY, AUGU 

hand is small, to be sure, but the race is hardy 
and has long survived in the face of tremendous 
persecution. Jf—even at this late day—it can 
be protected from attacks by man, its worst 
enemy, and during the nesting season, from the 
fires 
there is good reason to hope that its 
which so frequently run over the island, 
numbers 
may increase. 
Could the 
duced to take a pride in this splendid bird and 
citizens of Massachusetts be in- 
to protect it, the species might be so increased 
that colonies of the heath hen might be planted in 
different portions of the State where conditions 
life, 
possible that once again it would become a part 
of the North 
Even if this is too much to hope 
are favorable to its and it might be 
mainland fauna of our American 
coast. for. 
theré is at least a possibility that it may once 
more become abundant on the islands where it 
has so long endured. 

COLD STORAGE BIRDS. 
In the many articles written during the past 
years against the practice of preserving game 
by cold storage, one of the arguments which we 
often that 
stored is unwholesome, and that the freezing and 
have brought forward is game so 
thawing ef undrawn birds necessarily tainted 
the flesh and assisted in its decomposition, and 
food. 
It is satisfactory to know that investigations 
so rendered it unfit for 
made along these lines within the past year have 
tended absolutely to confirm the editorial con- 
tention that birds frozen without the removal 
of the entrails are unwholesome. The matter 
has been inquired into by the Department of 
Agriculture and by the authorities of the States 
of Pennsylvania, Kansas and Massachusetts, and 
the conclusion reached by all is the same, and 
confirms precisely what has so often been urged 
yy ForEST AND STREAM. ; 
Every big-game hunter of experience very well 
that if the are left in a 
animal over night the animal is spoiled before 
knows entrails dead 
morning. Practically the same thing takes place 
more slowly, since 
cool off 
quickly and before the process of decomposition 
in regard to birds, though 

rds, being so much smaller, more 
has set in. «Nevertheless the principle is the 
The 
tion is present and is working? fast or slowly. 
same. material which causes decomposi- 

MAPS. 
ForEST AND STREAM receives a great many in- 
quiries for maps. Our friends of to-day are not 
so care free as some of those of the old‘days, 
and they are not content to gain their informa- 
regions 
tion by exploring for themselves the 
they visit. Besides, they wish to decide in good 
time just where they are to go, then obtain ac- 
curate*maps of that particular section of coun- 
try, and lay out their route, side trips, etc., i 
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advance. It is a business-like method of plan 
ning a vacation, but we have no fault to find 
with it, for it is one of the few successful 
methods of doing a thing correctly, and he who 
reliable 
tion from those who can supply it, 
plans his route, then obtains informa- 
is*more lik 
ely 
to avoid disappointments than if the happy-go- 
lucky plan is depended on. 
Many of the 
hunting and fishing regions, and in some States 
The 
plotted on a 
railways supply good maps of 
the game commissioners sell maps at cost. 
Government maps, however, are 
large scale, but are supplied in handy sections 
easily carried in the pocket, and the. cost ts 
trifling. The only drawback is whether or not 
a certain locality has been surveyed and mapped 
For 
a certain 
example, an inquiry may come for maps of 
river, whose upper and lower, but not 
its middle reaches, flow through surveyed and 
mapped land. 
If our friends who desire maps will write to 
the Geological Survey.. Washington, D. C., for a 

free guide map of the State they intend to visit, 
from it they will learn whether or not certain 
regions have been mapped. If so, it is only 
necessary to ask for certain quadrangles, being 
particular to inclose five cents (coin only) for 
each one. 

Witt the completion of the great canal along 
the east coast of the Peninsula of Florida new 
cruising waters and camping and_ hunting 
grounds are available to all sorts and con- 
ditions of men--owners of yachts, houseboat 
parties and those who carry their outfits in 
small boats and canoes. In the fullness of time 
it will be possible to cruise safely and comfort- 
ably from Saint Augustine to Miami, stopping 

here and there to shoot or fish on the way. And 
the fact that this quiet waterway 1s at no point 
very far from the sound of the roar of the 
surf of the Atlantic Ocean will add to the 
fascination of a journey along the greater part 
of the eastern shore of the Land of Flowers. 
In an early issue Dr. DeWitt Webb will give 
FOREST AND STREAM readers a faint idea—for 
more is impossible through the inadequate 
agency of the pen—of what 1s in store tor those 
who are not.chained to business all the year. 
Furthermore, he states that this is not essentially 
winter cruising water, thereby assisting in dis- 
pelling the idea that the eastern shore is a 
furnace in summer instead of -a breeze-cooled 
region where the nights are suggestive of three- 
point blankets. 
ZR 
Just twenty townships in Maine, if the report 
be true, are to be turned over to the paper men, 
who will strip 200,000 acres of land of all the 
wood that. canbe utilized for pulp. The region 
in question is drained by the Aroostook River 
and by the East and West Branches of the Penob- 

scot, and was owned, it 18 understood, by two 
or three different companies 

