the National Forests ] 7 



In this way the Forest Service finds itself charged with the 

 administration of a number of areas from which the usual com- 

 mercial utilities have been excluded by law and which have been 

 specifically reserved for recreational and allied purposes. 1 



One of these National Monuments stands so clearly in a class 

 by itself that a special word should be given to it here. This is the 

 Grand Canyon of the Colorado in northern 

 The Grand Arizona. By consent of the civilized world 

 Canyon this stands enrolled as one of the foremost won- 



ders of creation. It exhibits beyond all dis- 

 pute those qualities which have thus -far generally controlled in the 

 making of our National Parks. The propriety of including the 

 Grand Canyon in our National Park family is so overwhelming 

 that no objection could be raised against it, if indeed anybody 

 were disposed to raise such objection. 



Yet in the natural course of legislation and executive procedure 

 the Grand Canyon has become, not a National Park, but a National 

 Monument, and the Forest Service has been charged with its 

 protection and administration. And the Forest Service must 

 obviously do the best it can, not to make a Forest of the Grand 

 Canyon, but to manage it as a National Monument. 



At Fresno, Cal., is located a State normal school. This school, 

 desiring to maintain a summer session, but finding the midsum- 

 mer climate at Fresno inconvenient, has ar- 

 Cooperation ^ *^ ^ 



j.i r j.j. ranged to hold such summer sessions at Lake 

 With Instltu- 

 . Huntington, about 75 miles back in the moun- 



tians. Here in a glorious black forest, beside 

 a cool glacier-fed lake and almost within reach of the perennial 

 snows, the normal school is building up a permanent equipment 

 of dormitories, classrooms, and laboratories. This development 



1 A list of the National Monuments now under the administration of the Forest Service is given in an 

 appendix. 



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