Show os ll 0 i Hs Hsi Y i K Z F s r M icy r t tr r ra raN raL 7 r N L AA A Loggerhead on a Florida Beach Prepared by National Geographic D 1 C C Vr IV NU I TN TN SP SPITE rD of ot man mans s destruction I of ot forests and building of great I cities the face of nature has changed but little along the At and Gulf Gul coasts of ot north orth America A number of or large arge or other otherwise Ise note noteworthy species of ot wild animals originally here have halo disappeared but these s were sere of ot kinds apparently unfitted to sun survive he In a populous country Among them may be men Honed the bison and the elk which once roamed the eastern forests and the wolves and cougars rs which preyed upon them and other wild things In addition among the birds the great greit auk auh the Labrador duck duch the heath hen passenger pigeon and hive have vanished As against this there Is n a marked renewal reneal renew rene al of ot forest In prom pro I ress and large e numbers of ot species I ot of wild creatures ha have hale e adapted themselves to share their world with ch civilized mm n Moose and carl boo bou hold their own In some of ot the wilder places and the white tailed deer is probably bly more numerous than at any previous time In Its history mach rach yearly hunting sea season season season son within a radius of ot miles ot of sew ew York city sportsmen take more than 10 of ot these deer In Penn syl their increase has been so 80 great that the entire stock of ot d deer Cr has hs been threatened with stars stan a atlon tion 0 owing Ing to lack of or sufficient for forage forage forage age Probably the total number ot of small birds now Is vastly lastly greater than existed c in the day Ilay of ot the Ill I'll Pilgrim grim rl Fathers owing to the Increase ot of fowl available a on farms and In growth forests Millions lIons of migratory wild fo fowl foI I continue to troop I e esery eer er fill to win In winter winter ter in the waler lYs ays and mo marshes Many small creatures of ot field and forest ha have base e developed such uch an In Insight insight Insight sight Into mm mn and his ways that the out outwit It him at times when their Interests conflict Cottontail swamp and snowshoe snow 00 shoe rabbits squirrels muskrats beaver mink otter rc rac cools bobcats and anil other small mall mam mils and even eren the hi bl ick bear ber are common In many man places Doves wild turkeys ruffed grouse and bob bobwhites bobwhites whites continue to lead leall the hunter afield Tropical Beasts and Birds So 0 fir hr we sae have hae had bad to do only with the creatures of ot more north northern northern northern ern latitudes but within our south southern southern ern limits come such beasts as the Jaguar ocelot Jaguar cat peccary and pre prehensile hensile tailed porcupine with par parrots parrots parrots rots and other strange birds and a avery avery very different plant life tint that mike mikea n a new v world worl to the northern vis Is visItor visItor With so much of ot the capi capital tal In wild 1111 life to go on It Is ape dally to note the greet ret anal al ening that has hac tal en price among the people of the United Stites during the last twenty years In their recognition of ot the lue of wild life as 1 i greet greit national as asset et that t must I 1 e and per perpetuated This change from com coin rath p e Indifference has bas come as the direct result of an educational campaign conducted for years by bv many Th The survival sun h al of so much life along the eastern coast and Its bor Bering hinterland Is due largely to region s physical characters tics To lo the north In newfoundland newfound Newfoundland land ova nova Scotia hew Mw Bruns Brunswick runs wick Ick and Maine alne are vast thinly peopled forested ares areas abounding In streams and ill I'll es cs There here trivel Is still so o by rough roads and small bol boats t that conditions re- re re remain main favorable fa to wild lid life Beginning ncr the mouth of the Hudson a great greit coastal plain ex extends extends extends tends southward sonth ard to ea eastern tern Mexico to 10 the north It begins with a ot of only onh onla a few miles broadening to from to 20 2 X miles In prices until It narrows again ner rim lm pico In this tills entire distance there are arc no outcroppings of meta metamorphic rocks and apparently none of sedimentary formation except e the coquinas of I lorida Long stretches or of this plain are arc fronted by sand sandI I L t dl aches ilc III d here and there thre thereby thereby by bass bivs b s sounds Inlets arid and the mouths of or rh rivers risers ers Buck Bick of the et Io posed ed be belches lie ham great groat marshi mr h hareas areas aril and shallow bays ba s with Ith mim berle berless s sand bar bars low islands Inlands and mud mild fiats flats In such places pi Ices thrive e aquatic plants with myriads of ot fish cru and other food which In winter sustain millions of ot swans geese geece ducks gulls waders and other wild fowl Fine FIno for the Water Fowl Fortunately for these birds the tho brol en shore line and submerged ed lands have base prevented pre tho the opening ot of highways and limited agricultural tural tura development I arge argo areas are occupied only by fish fishing In villages and by hunting clubs In Maryland 1 Ir Irinia North orth and South Carolina Louisiana and Texas One chronicler records that at atthe atthe atthe the time of ot his first visit to eastern Canada Canalla In ind 1907 1007 the amz Ing number of or caribou in Newfoundland land and their annual mIgration across the Island each fill were recognized as one of ot the marvels mar ot of American wild life At the same time the moose of ot New ew sew Brunswick were extraordinarily abundant Although this region relon has long been accessible with comparative e ease case yet Its Ita unsuitability to agricultural cultural de development has left vast V areas arcas so sparsely occupied that they remained true wildernesses The coming of ot the World orld war brought i 1 period of ot Intensive pur pursuit pursuit pursuit suit of ot big game In all this region for its meat value This slaughter ot of moose and especially caribou dan dangerously lowered their numbers Probably the migratory herds ot of caribou will still III never troop across the barrens of Newfoundland land In anything like their former numbers W Ith well enforced protection however er caribou In and moose In sew New and Maine may my be In fair abundance Caribou appear to be going forever fore from Milne 1 ew sew runs and Nova ova Scotia the tailed white tailed deer having taken their place in many ninny districts The deer continue to extend their rinse rne Protected by Treaty At the present time it would seem that the shore birds have returned In large luge numbers along the eastern coast COlst since the migratory bird treaty became effective and while many of the species go o Into Mexico rind find e even esen en South Couth America to winter most of ot them are too small to at attract attract attract tract the pot hunters of ot those re regions glons gions The great grat flights of ot geese swans and ducks that annually sweep south and southeasterly In tile the tall fall through the cistern states and andalon alon along the Atlantic coa coast t mainly congregate In ard and about Che- Che Chea a peake bay and Currituck sound orth Many of ot these birds howe however er remain about Long Island sound and Barnegat bay until the coming of ot severe weather when hen most of them also mo move mote e down the coast Georgia and having few shallow fresh frech niter lter bivs and little lUtle wild fowl food tood along the Atlantic coast COlst form a rather marl cd ell area ot of almost complete separation be- be between between be between tween these t two 0 groups of ot migrants which winter along the Atlantic coast and those of ot the Gulf Gult the geese and swims In par par- par particular not usually being found far far- farther ther tier south than the Currituck sound Is an Idl home for wild 1111 fowl during the win winter winter ter months It Is shallow sur surrounded surrounded rounded by hy marshes bays bys and ponds of almost entirely fresh wa water water ter In which various carious kinds hinds ot of excellent wildfowl fo 1 food plants Fish rish shellfish and crus crustaceans are also plentiful On Its deeper and more open wa waters waters ale aie thou thousands of or canvasbacks numerous redheads and golden olden eyes eves e es while In the shallow bays and connecting ponds are to tobe tobe be found great groat numbers of marsh duel s such as black duck mallard Ileon pintails and tell toil which usually assemble In smaller flocks thin species frequenting deep wa water n tel ter terOne One of the most moct interesting birds birdson birdson birdson on the Is the whistling swan In the 1 he local c estimates of the these e birds viry siry from n a total of ot fifty thou thousand thousand thousand sand to nearly one hundred thou send birds Although h the tho swans vang are undoubtedly very sery numerous yet these estimates ire lre no doubt tar far too high As Ac a n matter of fact they pi do not reach rech the lowest number gh given en Fifteen or twenty years ago In this reglo region through overshooting the swans swam wan were w ere be be- becoming becoming becoming coming dangerously reduced In number |