THE SATIOXAL PARKS 



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Photograph by H. C. Best. 



YOSEMITE Palls. The upper fall is 1,430 feet ; then come cascades, partly 

 hidden, in which the fall is 675 feet, and finally a drop of 820 feet. 



national parks, was created. Other parks were created as follows: The 

 Yosemite, Sequoia and General Grant in 1890, the Mount Rainier N'a- 

 tional Park in 1899, the Crater Lake and Piatt national parks in 

 1902, the Wind Cave National Park in 1903, the Sullys Hill National 

 Park in 1904, the Mesa Yerde National Park in 1906 and the Glacier 

 National Park in 1910. Bills are now pending in congress for the 

 creation of the Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, the Peter 

 Lassen, Mount Shasta and Lake Tahoe National Parks in California, the 

 ]\rount Olympus National Park in AYashington, the Saddle Mountain 



