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Excerpt from The Seacoast National Park in Maine: Viewed in the Light of Its Relation to Bird Life and Bird Study
With the opening of the Sieur de Monts National Monument upon Mount Desert Island - the first National Park east of the Mississippi - a large and important area has been set aside as a bird reserve.
The significance of this new creation, moreover, can scarcely be overestimated; for, the lover of wild life, the scientist, and the farmer alike possess interests in the conservation of our birds.
The principal causes for these several interests are three: Aesthetic, Scientific, and Economic; the first of which, in its broad appeal, is the Aesthetic.
Our wild birds constitute one of the most beautiful and essential elements in nature. Without their abundant presence, the streams, the forests and the flowers - even the sky and the ocean - would lose their chief living charm.
The imagination shrinks before the picture of a spring, no matter how lovely, deprived of the sweet voices and flashing forms of our early migrants; of a birdless summer forest, or of an autumn without its cheerful bands of roving feathered hunters.
Yet with the rapidly increasing occupation of all available lands - especially along our crowded eastern seaboard - for the purposes of industry, agriculture, and residence, all the wilder and more picturesque regions will soon be greatly diminished in extent, eventually to disappear almost completely, together with the wild and interesting forms of life which they at present shelter, unless considerable tracts are set apart, before it is too late, in order to conserve them.
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