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done before whose favorite home areas have not 

 met the standards of the System. In this instance 

 the bill also demanded an appropriation of a million 

 dollars to buy private lands within the proposed area. 



South Dakota has its Badlands national park 

 project, also. The hundred and eighty thousand 

 acres between the White and Cheyenne Rivers pro- 

 posed for the "Wonderland National Park" is less 

 than half federal land, the rest being state and pri- 

 vate land. The projectors of neither of these take 

 the least account of National Park standards or na- 

 tional public opinion. Their concern is local. 



At least six other areas of Badlands have been 

 suggested for some form of permanent preservation. 

 In course of time, at least one characteristic and ap- 

 propriate example perhaps will be chosen as a Na- 

 tional Monument, and states may make what parks 

 they please with reasonable certainty that the nation 

 will contribute its lands. 



Another Public Lands region rich in scenic and 

 recreational example, straddling the boundary of 

 Nevada and Idaho, is known as the Owyhee Coun- 

 try because drained by the Owyhee River. Several 

 hundred square miles, of altitude too high for agri- 

 culture but delightfully forested, are available for 

 special uses of this kind. A grazing country over- 

 grazed, invaluable for summer recreation, it will 

 in time become part of the co-operative state and na- 

 tional recreational programme which is destined in 

 time to replace the present habit of individual states 



