CHAPTER VII

TO THE TEACHER

For a fuller account of this Wild Bird Reservation see the chapter in “Where Rolls the Oregon,” called “Three-Arch Rocks Reservation.” Bring out in your reading the point I wished to make, namely that these great reservations of State and Federal Government are not only to preserve bird and animal life, but also to preserve nature--a portion of the earth--wild and primitive and thrilling, against the constant encroachments of civilization. Interest your pupils in their own local parks, preserves, etc., and if they have farms or wood-lots, have them post them and set them aside as their personal sanctuaries for wild life.

FOR THE PUPIL

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_Tillamook_: the name of a town near the coast of Oregon.

_at the mouth of the bay_: Tillamook Bay, where the bar is only about thirty feet wide, making the passage extremely difficult and dangerous.

_Three-Arch Rocks Reservation_: was set aside by President Roosevelt. Credit for this and the other Oregon Reservations is largely due to Mr. William L. Finley and the Audubon Societies.

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_Shag Rock_: so named for the black cormorants that nest upon it, for these birds are commonly known as “shags.”

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_the sea-lions_: were of the species known as Steller’s sea-lions.

_reversed in shape_: I mean the close hind flippers, the tapering hind end of the body, gave them an unnatural shape--reversed.

_Æolus_: the god of the winds.