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system. It must also be susceptible of whatever de- 

 velopment is necessary to make it available for use 

 by the millions of park visitors who may care to use 

 it, without injuring in any way the extraordinary 

 natural features which, under the expressed com- 

 mand of Congress, the National Park Service is to 

 preserve 'unimpaired for the enjoyment of future 

 generations/ 



"Areas whose principal qualification is adapta- 

 bility for recreational uses are not, of course, of na- 

 tional park caliber. 



"Proposed parks are measured by the standards 

 set by the major national parks of the system; hence 

 the requirements are exacting. As long as these 

 standards shall prevail there is no danger of too 

 many national parks being established, or of the ex- 

 cellence of the present system being lowered." 



It will be useful here to supplement these ex- 

 pressions of federal conception with others showing 

 the popular conception of to-day. No other division 

 of the Federal Lands has aroused such interest 

 among the people of the present as our National 

 Parks. The temper of the times sharply distin- 

 guishes between the type of area to be included in 

 future additions, if any, to the National Parks Sys- 

 tem, and the types which belong naturally to State 

 Park and other principally recreational systems. 



On May 24, 1924, the National Conference on 

 Outdoor Recreation, after thorough discussion, 

 passed the following: 



Resolved, i. That the Conference express its 



