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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



in honor of the late John Muir (who did much to re- 

 move the "unfamiliarity" of our national parks), is in 

 process of completion and will connect the Roosevelt 

 Park with Yosemite. It is urgently hope that both these 

 projects for national parks will receive favorable Con- 

 gressional action at an early date. 



The most important piece of park legislation recently 

 enacted by Congress was the creation, on February 26, 

 1919, of the Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. For 

 many years the Grand Canyon has been acknowledged 



the acme of canyon scenery the world over. It has been 

 deservedly styled "not the eighth wonder of the world 

 but the first wonder of the world." Artists, poets, liter- 

 ary men, and even confirmed globe-trotters have been 

 baffled in their attempt to adequately depict or describe 

 it. Yet with all that has been said and written about it, 

 and notwithstanding that hundreds of thousands of peo- 

 ple have visited it, the Grand Canyon still remains the 

 most "unfamiliar" of all our national parks. Its mighty 

 extent, its vast depths, its countless ramifications, its un- 





Photograph by H. T. Cowling 



LOOKING INTO THE DEPTHS OF THE LORDLY GRAND CANYON 



^r a e ;n I |" d .K? fi" '1* T0C \ in the fore S round well represents the spirit of the Canyon, which, in a vast measure, typifies the re- 

 straint, me aiootness, the poetry, the romance, the dignity, the force and the power which are the highest characteristics of the 



Indian. The view is from Mojave Point. 



