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Title: Wild life conservation in theory and practice; lectures delivered before the Forest School of Yale University, 1914
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hornaday, William T. (William Temple), 1854-1937 Walcott, Frederic Collin, 1869-1949
Subjects: Game protection
Publisher: New Haven, Yale University Press (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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te fencedpreserve in America, containing within its areaabout 27,000 acres of wooded upland countrydiversified by occasional cleared areas which oncewere hill farms. It is estimated that there havebeen as many as 4,000 big game animals in this parkat one time, including buffalo, wapiti, deer and wildboars. The native white-tailed deer are naturallythe most numerous. Blue Mountain Forest Park, as it is called, wasestablished as a hunting-preserve. It has had thegood fortune to have associated with it, for severalyears, the New Hampshire naturalist, ErnestHarold Baynes, with whose interesting studies thepublic is familiar through his published articles. The largest fenced preserve in New York Stateis the park owned by Edward H. Litchfield ofBrooklyn, near Tupper Lake, in the Adirondacks,which comprises in its area about 10,000 acres. Mr.Litchfield has stocked this preserve with manyspecies of American big game animals, and also wildboar. Another interesting preserve of this type is that
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T3CO a a;> .s CO •aI PRIVATE GAME PRESERVES 205 of Mr. C. F. Dieterich, who for more than twentyyears has had about 3,000 acres under fence at Mill-brook, Dutchess County, New York. Mr. Dieter-ich successfully introduced German hares and hasalso made interesting experiments with roe deer,which now seem thoroughly acclimatized. Mr. Chester W. Chapins preserve is in SullivanCounty, New York. The late Dr. W. SewardWebb had a large tract of forest land fenced at hisNehasane Park in the Adirondacks. WilliamRockefeller also experimented with exotic deer athis Bay Pond preserve in the Adirondacks, andGeorge J. Gould at one time had a herd of elk athis place near Arkville in the Catskills. As farback as 1902, as a result of a computation made bythe State Forest, Fish and Game Commission ofNew York, there was a total of 791,208 acres ofland included in game preserves in the Adiron-dacks. Most of this land, however, was not fenced,but simply posted by the owners against publicshooting, as

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