The Yellowstone Park 
natural advantages for game, an effort has 
been made to enlarge the reservation on the 
south and east and to clearly mark its boun- 
daries. By this proposed enlargement, the 
sources of the Yellowstone and Snake rivers, 
and the greater part of the Absaroka Range 
on the east, would be included within the 
Park. It is believed that this additional terri- 
tory will before long be made a part of the 
Park reservation by the action of Congress, 
as it has already been set aside as a timber 
reservation and placed in charge of the super- 
intendent of the Park. In speaking, there- 
fore, of the superior advantages of the region 
as a home for animals, the timber reservation 
will be meant as well as the Park itself. 
The area of the Yellowstone Park, as at 
present defined, is somewhat more than 3300 
square miles. The central portion is a broad 
volcanic plateau between 7000 and 8500 feet 
above sea-level, with an average elevation of 
8000 feet. Surrounding it on the south, 
east, north, and northwest, lying partly within 
and partly without the Park lines, are moun- 
tain-ranges with culminating peaks and 
ridges rising from 2000 to 4000 feet above 
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