The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-10-14
STATES WILD LIFE an ASSET
OPPORTUNITY AFFORDED FOR
HUNTING AND FISHING.
Minnesota Offers unrivaI'ed Allure
ments as Recreation Ground for
People Of Other States.
BY Carlos Avery, Game and Fish
Commissioner.

BY Carlos Avery, Game and Fish
Commissioner.
The great abundance of the wild life
OF Minnesota's fields, woods, lakes and
streams and its remarkable variety
and wide distribution constitutes one
OF the states most valuable assets.
In this respect this state is unrivaled
The value of such an asset in cold
dollars cannot be computed. though it
Is known that the actual food value of
the game and fish taken and used each
year by commercial fishermen, anglers
and sportsmen amounts to vast sum.
Game and Fish Abundant.
1t is not in the commercial value of
the food SO taken, though this is large,
that the chief value is found, but
rather in the pleasant opportunity al
forded such large number of people
for recreation, outings and pleasure at
small cost. There are few families SO
situated, even among the poorer peo-
pie of the larger cities, that they are
not able to enjoy frequent outings at
lake or stream, in the forest or field,
and to have frequent opportunity of
supplying their own tables with fresh
fish or taste OF game, so numerous
and we'll stocked are the lakes,
streams, fields and woods.
Teeminq With Wild Life.
There are no barren wastes in Min
nesota-no arid areas, treeless and life
less, as so mary states possess. Ev-
cry foot of land unused for agricul-
ture is clothed in luxury of vegeta-
ton or covered by body of water, in
either case teeming with wild life
This holds good in all portions of the
state-the thickly and the sparsely
settled, as we'll as the uninhabitated
areas.
The surface of the state is varied
with frequent ravines, valleys, marshes
or sloughs, affording abundant oppor-
tunity for trees and other vegetable
growth and cover for wild birds and
animals. Hundreds of miles are trav-
ersed by streams stocked with speck-
led trout, rainbow, steelheads, and
full lakes are filled with pike, bass,
perch, sunfish, muskellunge, whitefsh,
crappies, lake trout, and many other
varieties, while fall grouse, quail and
duck shooting is unsurpassed any
where in the country. The graceful
red deer abounds over nearly half of
the area Of the state and the lordly
moose roams over hundreds of miles
of the wilder and more remote Sec
lions of the far north, while many
kinds of fur-bearing animals abound
everywhere as do the smaller game
animals such as rabbits and squirrels.
Offers Unrivalled Allurements.
1t is this lavish abundance and mar
velous variety of wild living things,
coupled with the delightful attractive
ness of the country, which enables
Minnesota to offer such unrivalled al
lurements as a recreation ground fol
less fortunately situated people of 9TH
er states.
The beauty of the landscape with
it's remarkable clothing of verdure
throughout the entire summer season,
it's excellent country highways, it's
hospitable people whose prosperous
and contented homes nestle among the
groves and by the shimmering lakes,
invite the vacationist to seek pleas
ure, rest and recuperation in hunting,
fishing, camping, canoeing or motor
ing within her borders.
Nature Lavish in Her Gifts.
Nature has been lavish in her gifts
to the North Star State The call of
the wild is peculiarly enticing in this
favored region. To him who loves the
life in the canoe and tent, the aro-
matte evergreen forest, the tapping of
the waves on the rocky shores, the
ripping of the stream over gravelly
beds, the cheerful campfire, who is
thrilled by the wild ducks whistling
morning flight or tempted by the red
deer's elusive trail, or who seeks the
exultation of successful angling for
the wary trout or the truculent bass,
our fair state offers unrivalled oppor-
tunities.
Enjoy Vacation Near Home.
Situated in the geographic center of
North America; easy of access from
all directions, within days journey
OF the homes of millions of people in
other states less favored; quickly,
comfortably and cheaply reached, and
with no necessity for expensive out
fits, pack trains or guides; no arduous
mountain climbing or other hardships;
the state of Minnesota offers the mil
lions of the Mississippi valley and
elsewhere, to those of moderate means
as we'll as to the people of wealth,
unrivalled opportunities to enjoy a
pleasant and profitable vacation near
their homes-at their very doors.
ADVANTAGES OF MINNESOTA.