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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



LAFAYETTE NATIONAL PARK, MAINE 



Stepping stones across the outflow from the Tarn, an ice-eroded lake basin at the foot of Champlain Mountain in the most 



eastern of our National Parks. 



The National Park Office is at Bar Harbor, on the 

 shore of Frenchman's Bay. A dozen miles away, a 

 steel and concrete drawbridge, lately built, connects the 

 Island at the Narrows with the mainland and State 

 highway system, over which two principal routes are 

 marked for motorists from Portland to Bar Harbor 

 and the National Park the one along the coast, with its 

 old seaport towns ; the other, by the Kennebec and the 

 State Capital at Augusta. 



Coming by rail, the journey ends in a swift ferry to 

 Bar Harbor across Frenchman's Bay, facing the moun- 

 tains and protected by a range of rocky islets from the 

 open sea in favorable weather a superb approach. 



Mount Desert and its resorts have long been famous, 

 and the travel to them Nation-wide; Lafayette National 

 Park, a gift to the Nation for the people's benefit, is 

 still in its beginning, but it is rich in beauty by the gift 

 of Nature and rich in opportunity for the future. 



YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK 



.By Horace M. Albright, Superintendent 



THIS is Yellowstone National Park's Golden Anni- 

 versary year. Fifty years ago, March ist, it was 

 established by Congress "for the benefit and enjoyment 

 ot the people." A pioneer Montanan, Judge Cornelius 

 Hedges, in seeking a way to preserve the wonders and 

 beauties of the Yellowstone region, gave to the na- 

 tions of the Earth the National Park idea, and f>day 

 the idea is a conservation principle of first importance 



in many countries. Thus, Yellowstone Park in 1922. 

 as it celebrates its semi-centennial anniversary, deserves 

 to have the intelligent and progressive people of the 

 world consider in their moments of reflection on civic 

 affiairs, what this great playground, and the altruistic 

 idea upon which it is founded, means to them and to 

 posterity. 



There will be tens of thousands of visitors to Yel- 



