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approval of the historic and popular belief that the 

 National Parks System consists of permanent na- 

 tional reservations protecting inviolate those won- 

 derful or unique areas of our country which are 

 museums representing the scenery and principal nat- 

 ural features of the United States available in our 

 great heritage of animate and inanimate nature; 



2. That these Parks must be protected com- 

 pletely from all economic use ; that their scenic quali- 

 ties should represent features of national importance 

 as distinguished from those of sectional or local sig- 

 nificance and that they must be preserved in a con- 

 dition of unmodified nature; 



3. That laws should be provided which will fur- 

 nish an administration as nearly uniform as possible 

 throughout the National Parks System. 



The American Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science, much the largest and most progres- 

 sive scientific body in the world, has issued a series 

 of National Park resolutions covering a number of 

 years, the latest of which, passed by the Council 

 December, 1925, follows: 



"Resolved, That the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science recognizes the National 

 Parks as the means of preserving unique represen- 

 tations of the primitive and majestic in nature, and 

 wishes to record its protests against additions to the 

 National Park System, or change in policy, which 

 may tend to lessen in fact or in public estimation 

 their present high value as natural museums, their 



