estes park production and improvement association, a group of local boosters, whose major contribution to date had been the successful campaign to build a face -- a fish hatchery on fall river to the years before. the dedication was to the head of the medicine national bo forest, which included the area now included in -- if you want to attract tourists, the audience was told, you should establish a gaming refuge where tourists can come to the wildlife. a map was produced covering 4 townships, an area over 1000 square miles extending 24 miles north to south 42 miles east to , west with a river of the north along the foothills through estes park and west. towards north and middle parks. mills did not attend that meeting, but the report of the proposition struck a resonant chord. accordingly, he wrote wheeler, who was then headquartered in fort collins, to inquire where the boundaries of such a preserve might be located. there the matter largely rested until the june 1909 meeting of the estes park protective and improvement association, which appointed a committee of two consisting of enos mills and f.o. stanley, to study the idea further. from that poi