Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2111915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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176 AMERICAN FORESTRY game refuges where the animals can not be hunted but breed and in time overflow into the surrounding country. Such refuges become game reservoirs. Bears, wild cats, and mountain lions also inhabit and breed in the National Forests, though the game refuge does not afford them sanctuary; but coyotes and wolves, by far the most destructive of the predatory animals, are only transients, wintering and breeding in the foothills and plains outside of the Forests and trailing the domestic stock into the mountains as the advancing season brings forward the forage crop. The National Forests embrace mil- lions of acres of the best big-game country in the United States, but hunting on them has two aspects. One is a matter of business; the other is sport for sport's sake. From the busi- ness point of view, the game is a resource of great value. The income from hunt- ing licenses is an important source of revenue in some vStates. Many western towns thrive mainly because of the money which sportsmen spend for guides, outfits, and supplies. The town of Cody, Wyoming, for example, is a favorite starting point for parties which push thence westward into the rich game country embraced in the Shoshone National Forest, adjoining the Yellowstone. Sometimes these parties combine a hunting trip with a visit to the Yellowstone National Park. All guns must of course be left behind while the followers of Nimrod are converted into tourists and take in the sights of this wonderful and unique national possession; for no firearms can be carried within the Park. But going or coming there is plenty of oppor- tunity to take advantage of the fact
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Startled by the Camera's Click. a deer photographed ix the s.\n isabel national forest, custer county, colorado,

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