Ernest Harold Baynes

[1] Known as the "Blue Mountain Forest Association", it was a limited membership proprietary hunting club, the park of which comprised 26,000 acres (110 km2) in the towns of Cornish, Croydon, Grantham, Newport and Plainfield.

He also imported exotic species from Europe and Canada, including wild boar from the Black Forest of Germany.

The herd of bison, however, was destroyed in the 1940s following an outbreak of brucellosis,[3] and the main species preserved and hunted are elk and boar.

[4] From a natural level of 60 million in America, the bison population had been reduced by human activity to just 1,000 by the 1890s, and in 1904 160 of these animals lived within Corbin Park.

Baynes commented, "Of all the works of the late Mr. Austin Corbin, the preservation of that herd of bison was the one that would earn his country's deepest gratitude.

His experiment led to the founding of the American Bison Society and was connected, directly or otherwise, with the formation of some of our national parks.

Baynes' activity is believed to have maintained the political appetite to ban the importation of bird feathers, included within the Underwood Tariff bill then being debated in Congress.

Walter Hadwen for the American Anti-Vivisection Society wrote a rebuttal to Baynes' article, stating it was filled with misinformation.

[9] However, Baynes received support from W. W. Keen, Henry Cantwell Wallace, Frederic Augustus Lucas and many other academics and doctors.