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towns vying with one another to provide the most at- 

 tractive camp grounds for their motor visitors. 



Let it be said here that the National Forest Reserva- 

 tions, through which access to most of the National Parks 

 is had, offer many attractions to the motor tourist. The 

 Forest Service has actively co-operated in the building and 

 maintenance of park approach roads and has also provided 

 free camp grounds within the Forests. But National 

 Parks and National Forests are inherently different. Corn- 



provide this information the National Park Service, De- 

 partment of the Interior, has published circulars of gen- 

 eral information regarding most of the Parks, which are 

 available for free distribution. These pamphlets con- 

 tain the rules and regulations and also contain the author- 

 ized rates for all public utilities operated within the 

 Parks. 



The motor tourist should also procure a good road map. 

 The National Park Service has available for free dis- 







Copyright by Fred Harvey 



IN THE GRAND CANYON 



No feature of the National Parks is better known than the wonderful Grand Canyon, which no man or brush has yet adequately 



described. This is one of the zig-zags on the Bright Angel Trail. 



plete conservation is the National Park principle ; the 

 National Forest principle is conservation through utili- 

 zation of natural resources by scientific methods. The 

 area of National Parks equals only five per cent of the 

 area reserved as National Forests. National Parks are 

 the recreation grounds of the people, while National For- 

 ests may supplement these features by recreational de- 

 velopment. 



Whether one plans to go by train or motor one should 

 jnform oneself beforehand of what is to be seen and to 



tribution a small map of the Western United States, 

 showing the location of the National Parks and the Park- 

 to-Park Highways. 



Tr' X-FOREST Ranger Robinson was recently quoted 

 ^ in one of the San Francisco papers as follows : 



"Fellow named Robinson, who is in the Forest Service 

 up Sonora way, postcards down that the only difference 

 between the modern ranger and the pioneers is that while 

 the latter blazed the trails, the former trails the blazes." 



