Summing up the natural world romanticism of the end of the nineteenth century, J.F. Sprague of the Maine Sportsman's Fish & Game Association wrote, "Maine is the mecca at whose mossy and verdant shrines millions of earth worn pilgrims and toilers worship and receive the holy blessings of Nature in rest and invigorating recreation.
"The moose and the deer are their allies and ours and must be preserved."
