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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



the Sevier has a number of scenic features which would 

 draw forth many"Oh's" and "Ah's" and other similar 

 appropriate exclamations from thousands of tourists, were 

 it comprised within a National Park. 



Photcgraph by Arthur W. Stevens. 



ONE OF THE NARROW GORGES, SEVIER NATIONAL FOREST 

 This is one of the many small canyons between the rock walls shown in another 

 picture. Some of them are so narrow and deep that it is dusk in them even at 

 broad daylight. 



The region is rough and mountainous. The timber is 

 open and is broken by grassy parks and high, flower- 

 bedecked mountain meadows. Rugged peaks tower from 

 9500 to 11,000 feet into the air, while others of lesser 

 height but of equal ruggedness and roughness cut the 

 region into a maze of cliff and precipice. Large, impassable 

 lava beds occur everywhere throughout the Forest and 

 from the mountain tops the spectacle of open park 

 and broken cliff, of sharp, jagged mountain and rolling 

 plateau, with the fertile valley far below, is a never-to-be- 

 forgotten sight. 



But the crowning glory of the Sevier is a line of cliffs 

 extending for many miles along the eastern boundary of 

 the Forest and locally known as the "Pink Ledges." 

 Here Nature, the master artist sculptor and painter 



alike has decorated the rock walls with that lavishness 

 and skill which she has employed on so many of the world's 

 show places. Broken by canyons and arroyos, long draws 

 and steep ravines, these "Pink Ledges" present a wealth 

 of color and fantastic architecture which must be seen 

 to be appreciated. And in one of these canyons the form 

 and coloring rise supreme above anything else on the 

 continent, if not on the globe. 



A visitor, seeing it for the first time, called it the 

 "Temple of the Gods," and this title perhaps is more 

 fitting and descriptive than any other which could be 



Photograph by Arthur \V . Stevens. 



A GORGE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE CANYON 

 Here is a canyon within a canyon. There are dozens of these on the Sevier 

 National Forest in Southern Utah and each with some particular individual 

 scenic feature. 



found. Verily each of the old heathen gods would have 

 found him a temple to his liking, no matter how unique 

 his taste. 



From the brink of the canyon, one looks down into 

 what seems to be a city of temples. Chinese pagodas 

 stand side by side with pure Doric columns. Bell-shaped 

 towers of the East mingle with stately spires and count- 

 less minarets. Nature has been as lavish in her coloring 



