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use of other natural resources, such as timber, forage, 

 minerals, water for power and irrigation and domestic 

 supply, and with wild life conservation. 



3. A clear-cut policy regarding transfers of lands 

 within National Forests to National Parks based on the 

 principle that this will be done only in the case of areas 

 of a character so unique as to justify their withdrawal 

 from all economic and industrial development, and where 

 they are large enough to necessitate a separate adminis- 

 tration that can 

 not be given 

 under the pres- 

 ent jurisdiction 

 of the Forest 

 Service. 



4. A policy 

 of administra- 

 tion of the 

 National Parks 

 that excludes 

 economic de- 

 velopment of 

 natural re- 

 sources like 

 timber, grazing, 



etc. 



5. As a cor- 

 ollary of the 

 foregoing, not 

 to include in 

 new National 

 Parks areas of 

 mere hantable 

 timber and oth- 

 er res ources 

 which by their 

 nature and lo- 

 cation will in- 

 evitably be 

 needed for in- 

 dustrial use. 



6. Join i n g 

 hands of the 

 different fed- 

 eral agencies in 

 promoting rec- 

 reation devel- 

 opment outside 

 of the public 

 properties. The 

 activities would 

 include encour- 

 agement of the 

 est ablishment 

 by States, mu- 

 nicipalities, and 

 quasi-public organizations, 

 recreation use, 





of reservations suitable for 

 the correlation of these with the federal 

 properties where practicable, the encouragement by dem- 

 onstration and education of preserving scenic values 

 along highways and of roadside* planting, and the stimu- 

 lation of activities by States and other agencies in wild 

 life conservation. Through joint planning by the differ- 

 ent federal agencies in this co-operative work, the part 

 to be played by each of the bureaus would be clearly 

 defined so that each would have its particular field of 

 enterprise and there would be mutual support by all in 

 the public leadership of each. 



7. Encouragement of the organization outside of the 

 federal service of a recreation council, representing the 

 great associations of the country interested in outdoor 

 recreation. Such a council would be able to render a 

 public service through the education of its constituent 

 members regarding the problems throughout the country, 

 in bringing about harmonious and unified action in all 

 recreation matters, by promoting sound principles of 

 recreation development through federal, State, and 



municipal ac- 

 tivities, and by 

 its counsel ti 

 the public 

 agencies as a 

 spokesman 01 

 thousands of 

 persons 

 throughout the 

 Nation inter- 

 ested in out- 

 door recrea- 

 tion. 



8. The trans- 

 fer of the Na- 

 tional Park- 

 Service to the 

 Department of 

 Agriculture in 

 order that its 

 work may be 

 more closely 

 correlated with 

 that of the 

 Forest Service, 

 the Biological 

 Survey, the 

 Bureau of 

 Public Roads, 

 and the Bu 

 reau of Plant 

 Industry, which 

 are the chief 

 o r ganizations. 

 outside the 

 Park Service, 

 carrying on ac- 

 tivities related 

 to recreation. 

 No single step 

 of organization 

 would be as 

 effective as to 

 bring under 

 one departmen- 

 tal head all the 

 separate bureau the 

 the Park Service 

 single Cabinet offi- 

 unite in joint 



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A HIGH MOUNTAIN MEADOW IN GLACIER NATIONAL PARK 



Tlu National Parks are treasures of the nation, yielding rich returns in health and inspiration to the 

 thousands of visitors. Let our Government contribute liberally to their support and development, and 

 see that they are preserved as a precious heritage for all time. 



main work of recreation. As a 

 individuality of the work of 

 would be preserved. Under a 

 cer, all bureaus could more readily 

 enterprises. 



Aside from a better correlation of all recreation activi- 

 ties, the proposed action would enable the National Park 

 Service to have the immediate services of the Bureau of 

 Public Roads in its highway construction, and to coordi- 

 nate more effectively than at present its forest fire pro- 

 tection with that of adjacent National Forests. 



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