FEDERAL AND STATE RESERVATIONS 229 
in the fact that no lumbering can be carried on 
within them; that the mining laws, except in the 
case of the Mount Rainier National Park, do not 
apply to them; that their game animals are fully pro- 
tected, and that they are under the care of the troops 
of the regular army, assigned to that duty by the 
Secretary of War, but under the orders, for that pur- 
pose, of the Secretary of the Interior, and reporting 
to him. The best known and the largest of the na- 
tional parks is the Yellowstone, with an area of 
2,142,720 acres, located in Wyoming, with small por- 
tions in Montana and Idaho. The others are the 
Yosemite National Park (161,280 acres), the Gen- 
eral Grant National Park (2,560 acres), and the 
Sequoia National Park (161,280 acres), all in Cali- 
fornia, and the Mount Rainier National Park (207,- 
360 acres), in Washington. 
The forest reservations, from the latest reports 
the writer has been able to obtain, are located as fol- 
lows (see pages 230 and 231), and contain the areas 
indicated in the right-hand column, although the 
lands actually reserved are only the vacant public 
lands therein. 
The President may proclaim a reservation, but it 
requires an act of Congress to establish a National 
park. Several of the reservations will become Na- 
tional parks in time no doubt. 
