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never had a standing. To date, it has been an 

 outcast. Often lauded as akin to the fine arts, 

 or something sacred, commonly it is destroyed 

 or put to base uses. Parks should no longer be 

 used as pigpens and pastures. These base uses 

 prevent the parks from paying dividends in 

 humanity. 



There is in this country a splendid array of 

 Nature's masterpieces to lure and reward the 

 traveler. In mountain-peaks there are Grand 

 Teton, Long's Peak, Mt. Whitney, and Mt. 

 Rainier; in canons, the vast Grand Canon and 

 the brilliantly colored Yellowstone; in trees, the 

 unrivaled sequoias and many matchless prime- 

 val forests; in rivers, few on earth are enriched 

 with scenes equal to those between which rolls 

 the Columbia; in petrified forests, those in Ari- 

 zona and the Yellowstone are unsurpassed; in 

 natural bridges, those in Utah easily arch above 

 the other great ones of the earth; in desert at- 

 tractions, Death Valley offers a rare display of 

 colors, strangeness, silences, and mirages; in 

 waterfalls, we have Niagara, Yellowstone, and 

 Yosemite; in glaciers, there are those of the 



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