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high mountain peaks and rocky cliffs where the big- 

 horn roams at will. Many bears find it easy to get a 

 living in the garbage piles behind the hotels. The 

 park is not so well suited, however, to the bison and 

 the antelope, and Mr. Hornaday has well suggested 

 that there should be another park on the plains for 

 these animals in some place where they used to dwell. 

 Other parks are the Yosemite, the General Grant, the 

 Sequoia and the Mount Rainier. I can imagine no 

 more beautiful place in the world than the Yosemite 

 Valley with its rock walls thousands of feet high, its 

 cascades falling over them with brilliant rainbows, its 

 lakes and rivers and forests of great pines. The giant 

 trees, the Sequoias, found nowhere else in the world, 

 are included in the other California parks. The 

 Rocky Mountain reserves, besides the Yellowstone 

 and the Teton, which adjoin the National Yellowstone 

 Park, are the Lewis and Clark reserve, named for the 

 celebrated explorers of the Northwest, the Bitter 

 Root, the Priest River and the Flathead. These con- 

 tain more than twelve million acres. The Bitter Root 

 reservation alone has four million acres and "is full of 

 Nature's animals, elk, deer, wild sheep, bears, cats and 

 innumerable 'smaller people.'" 



There are great forest reserves in Oregon and 

 Washington which include more than twelve and one- 

 half million acres. Besides these National parks and 

 reserves, there are a number of State parks, such as 

 the Adirondack Reservation in New York, and the 

 State reservations in California. Books have been 

 written about these vast and wonderful parks and 

 preserves, one of which, that of John Muir, is so 



