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/J" J II ,i . 11111,1111100 1 00< 0< < Director's Page In this issue we have an article on the economics of recreation. I think we certainly are amiss when we advocate a program that has as its selling point dollars only, but on the other hand, it certainly is necessary that we consider the cost of objectives we think desirable. Since Indiana has derived much of its operating and maintenance revenue from gate receipts and concessions, this fact must be taken into consideration in planning, acquiring and developing property. Recreation areas and parks must be sizable because of the following reasons: 1. Sufficient space must be available that with intensive use we can maintain the natural- ness of the area; 2. The area must permit various and multiple activities since people are attracted to places where there are many things to do even though they only go to do one thing; 3. Water based recreation requires considerable land because even though persons spend- ing their time in water oriented activities will still spend more time on adjoining land than in or on the water. Eating, sanitation, parking, physical activities, all are land based. After all, man is still a land animal even though water is the most common denominator in outdoor recreation; 4. Recognition of space requirements for hunting and fishing which are almost entirely recreational pursuits in Indiana. Whether fish or wildlife are to be taken or observed, management practices need to be considered in achieving total development of an area; 5. With our system of highways in Indiana, and the easy access to our parks and recrea- tion areas, larger and more completely developed areas can be operated and main- tained more efficiently; 6. Effort should not be duplicated, but each area is and should be distinctive in its own right. Multiple recreational facilities can serve large groups with geologic and historic attractions providing the individuality of large developments. These thoughts have been set down without regard to relative position, but in an effort to state philosophical values in our recreation development whereby both economic and esthetic values can best be achieved. These are values that can stand the test of time which in the last analysis is what we must live by when planning ahead. DONALD E. FOLTZ, Director Indiana Department of Conservation OUTDOOR INDIANA INDIANA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION MATTHEW E. WELSH, Governor Commission: Anton Tony) Hulman, Jr., Chairman, Terre Haute John A. Hillenbrand II, Batesville The Hon. Paul D. Ewan, Lafayette Wilbur Yates, Vincennes DIVISIONS AND DIRECTORS Administrative Assistant-Robert Dayson Forestry-Robert D. Raisch Accounting-Harold B. Smith Geological Survey-John B. Patton Comptroller-Wm. Dean Lacy Oil and Gas-Homer R. Brown Enforcement-Harold D. Raisor Public Information-Thomas B. March Engineering-Henry C. Prange Purchasing-Anthony E. Sheppard Entomology-John J. Favinger State Parks-Kenneth R. Cougill Fish and Game-Woodrow W. Fleming Water Resources-Charles H. Bechert Vol. VII, No. 12 June, 1964 CONTENTS THE BUFFALO JUMPS FOR INDIANA - OFFICIALLY 2 LET'S GO BOWFISHING . 6 THE RENO GANG, HOOSIER OUTLAWS . 10 A BUILDING COMES ALIVE . 16 ROOSTER ROULETTE . .......... .21 SWIMMING IN INDIANA . 26 RECREATION - DEMAND, SUPPLY AND BENEFITS . 29 Cover Picture - Replica of the official Indiana state seal illustrated by Mrs. Lillian Brown, of Indianapolis, based on research by Mr. Charles Brown, of Montezuma. THOMAS B. MARCH, Editor Published monthly by the Indiana Department of Conservation, 6th Building, Indianapolis, Indiana-46209. Second BETTY BENNETT, Associate Editor Floor, State Office class mail privileges authorized at Indianapolis, Indiana. Out-of-state MAC HEATON, Art Director subscription rate $2.00. Change of address should be reported promptly. PHILIP VAN BLARICUM, Photographer Permission to reprint any material in this publication may be granted the editor. GENEVA CAHILL, Circulation Manager to responsible parties upon written application to The Buffalo Jumps for Indiana... Officially by BETTY BENNETT Associate Editor Outdoor Indiana U NTIL LAST year, if a Governor right, the larger one being nearer or Secretary of State of Indiana had the center and having a notch cut wanted to use a picture of his wife's nearly half way through, from the French poodle as the official seal of left side, a short distance above the the State of Indiana, he could have ground. The woodsman is wearing a done so legally, since no definite de- hat and holding his ax nearly perpen- scription of the seal had ever been dicular on his right. The ax blade is adopted by the Indiana legislature. turned away from him and is even However, this oversight was rem- with his hat. edied by the 1963 General Assembly "The buffalo is in the foreground, which adopted the following defini- facing to the left of the front. His tail tion: is up, front feet on the ground with "A perfect circle, two and five- back feet in the air -as he jumps eighths inches in diameter, enclosed over a log. by a plain line. Another circle within "The ground has shoots of blue the first, two and three-eighths inches grass, in the area of the buffalo and in diameter enclosed by a beaded line, woodsman." leaving a margin of one-quarter of an Although even this official descrip- inch. In the top half of this margin tion of the state seal leaves the are the words 'Seal of the State of clothes of the woodsman to the im- Indiana.' agination, it is the most detailed that "At the bottom center, 1816, has been attempted in the 148 years flanked on either side by a diamond, of Indiana's existence as a state and with two dots and a leaf of the tulip it is the only one that has been legally tree (liriodendron tulipifera), at both adopted by the state legislature. Be- sides of the diamond. The inner circle fore last year, the various designs of has two trees in the left background, the more than 200 different seals that three hills in the center background have been used in the state's history with nearly a full sun setting behind were "dreamed up" by the secretaries and between the first and second hills of state or by the governors, who from the left. stuck loosely to the original idea, but "There are fourteen rays from the let their imaginations run wild on the sun, starting with two short ones on finer details. the left, the third being longer and The territorial seal used for the then alternating, short and long. Northwest Territory at the turn of There are two sycamore trees on the the nineteenth century seems to have Page 2 OUTDOOR INDIANA June, 1964 Introduced by William Henry Harrison, (right), first governor of the Indiana Territory, this seal was attached to official papers by means of hot wax, covered with a paper wafer on which the impression was made with a metal die. supplied the basic design for the Indi- ana seal, which was introduced into the territory either by its first gov- ernor, William Henry Harrison, or the territorial secretary, John Gibson. First use of the seal has been traced back by Charles Brown, of Monte- zuma, Indiana, to 1801, when Har- rison arrived in the territory. Mr. Brown, who has done extensive re- search on the history of the state seal, thinks that Harrison had the seal made in Philadelphia after he June, 1964 was appointed governor and on his have also been used within adminis- way here. trative periods. This is where the mystery begins. Variations of the seal include de- Although Mr. Brown has been in signs with one, two, three and four touch with all those in Washington, buffaloes; some with a tailless animal D. C., and in this state who might and others with a long, flapping tail; have information about the seal's his- some with hills in the background and tory, he has not been able to come up some without; some with a fat, with any definite answers as to its shaggy buffalo and others with a origin, the exact symbolism of its de- thin, sleek one; some with a river and sign, or even if the design is supposed some with grassy plains. to have a particular meaning. Even the woodsman hasn't escaped A resolution was introduced into, variation. On some seals he seems to but was not adopted by the 1816 be wearing shorts, on others he wears legislature, describing the seal as: "A long, tight pants . .. sometimes he is forest and a woodsman felling a tree, hatless, at other times he wears a hat a buffalo leaving the forest and flee- square on his head . sometimes he ing through the plain to a distant swings an ax as though he really forest and the sun setting in the west, means it and then again, at other with the word Indiana." times he holds it so near the ax head There was no mention of any sym- that he'd have broken his knuckles bolism; there were no details, no men- if he had really hit a log with it. tion of hills or mountains in the back- Needless to say, the trees also ap- ground. In fact, this first resolution pear in many different versions. described the seal then in use in the Many of them look like sycamores or most general terms. The constitution maples, but occasionally the designer of Indiana (1851) provides that of a seal seems to have preferred the "There shall be a Seal of State, kept sleeker lines of something like a pop- by the Governor for official purposes, lar.

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