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led straight to Glacier Park, the magnificent, with 

 its 1,400 square miles of towering peaks, plunging 

 valleys, glaciers, lakes and forests. As a public 

 reservoir for mountain goats, sheep, grizzly bear, 

 black bear and moose, it is a domain that we can 

 hand down to posterity with the utmost pride. 

 There is reason to believe that it will preserve the 

 mountain goat from extinction in the United 

 States. The magnificent forests of Douglas and 

 Engelmann spruce, white pine, white cedar and fir 

 that fill its valleys and fringe its lakes are a price- 

 less heritage. While we think of it, we are re- 

 minded how utterly and hopelessly marred would 

 be that grand mountain fastness if our forbears had 

 wantonly destroyed all that timber, as the men and 

 boys of yesterday and to-day were striving, and 

 are striving, to annihilate all our finest beasts and 

 birds. 



No one thanks an ancestor who hands over to him 

 only desolation, ugliness and poverty. 



In addition to the Yellowstone and Glacier 

 parks, our group of national parks includes the 

 Mt. Olympus National Monument in the Olympic 

 mountains of Washington, a wild, rugged and 

 little-known region of rough mountains and heavy 

 timber, inhabited by about 1,200 elk. In the arid 

 regions, the Grand Canyon National Park has 

 been created, to include 101 miles of the awful 

 meanderings of the mighty chasm, its northern and 

 western side literally reeking with pumas and 



