Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1910-09-01
PRESERVING LAKE GEORGE
Two Plans for Conservation
Around Beauty Spot.
One Favored Proposes Throwing LIKE
George Area Into Adirondack stat.
Park-wouid Keep Historic sites
from the Lumber-Jacks,
Especial Cor Of New York Evening Post

laid before the coming meeting OF the
Lake George association. and, with ono
or two minor changes, will 10 before the
STATE Legislature at Its next session. One
proposes to make the Lake George Area
part OF the Adirondack Park: and the
other to make n separate park. TO be
named the Lake George Parh TN. az.
ISOLATION Is convinced that by either
method the waste Of timber and water
will be stopped
throwing the lake region into the Adj
IohoacN fark Is regarded by experts on
Forestry law as the simplest and most
eHec'iVe way. The lake and its shores
Will 'nen become subject to the laws that
protect the woods and streams to the
north and west. These laws plnce the
tracts under tho forest commission and
permit the condemnation ana purchase
from annual appropriations OF each ira
or timber as II is threatened by the lum-
bsr or manufa curing interests, after
which II becomes the property Of the
State TO he m aints ined as n forest reser-
walton for all time.
Another issue that the association has
already raised and will bring to the at
tention OF the federal government in the
form OF n petition Is the right Of the VIII
iage OF Lake George to use that name
owners OF cottages. country places, and
camps around this lake have become i'm
bued with the spirit of conservation in as
nigh degree as the most ardent disci-
pies OF Professor Fernow. Tho properties
whether l.0n-acre tracts or small pieces
OF woodland. Just large enough to shelter
n cabin or n cottage. are all carefully
timoered the owners Of the larger pre-
serves maintaining a force Of mon who do
nothing but patrol them
LARGE TRACTS UNGUARDED
Unfortunately for Lake George. how
ever, thorc are great tracts OF forest land
and miles of lakes and streams that have
no care save that which nature gives, and
these have no protection when the lum-
ber-tacks descend upon the land to level
the standing timber and shoot 1t in long
slides to the water
Why tho trainers of the Adirondack ct
did not see this Is question daily asked
by the lake people. The Adirondack Park
would have been practically square II
the men who drew the act had included
the Lake George area. AS II stands to-
day. the park is a square minus its south
east corner. This particular little corner
OF about 200 square miles contains pic
turesQue mountains and lakes, second to
none in the country in historic value.
In ea"ly colonial times Lake George
was the highway between the English
possessions In New York and New Eng
land and the French settlements on the
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