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practical and technical problems that demand immediate attention, 

 closely related to the administrative, rather than to the scientific or 

 educational aspects of park work. The main reasons for advocating 

 this as a distinct group is that in practice it is rare that sufficient 

 funds can be obtained to secure men v^ho are versatile enough to 

 cover so large a field. Furthermore, research is a special kind of 

 work that requires uninterrupted attention to secure the best results 

 (cf. White, '23, pp. 23—25) ; it is therefore safer to plan for larger 

 staffs. 



It is generally difficult in administrative circles to appreciate that 

 first-class men who are willing to have their work continually inter- 

 rupted by all sorts of administrative breaks can only rarely be 

 secured. These men must, to get the best results, be protected from 

 such interruptions. It is the administrator's first business to adopt 

 methods that will permit his organization to solve its problems, and 

 this is one of his duties which too often is undervalued. 



To provide for such a stafl^ for our Parks will necessitate a con- 

 siderable endowment. To be concrete, the Yellowstone and the 

 Yosemite alone now need a full million dollars each, the income 

 of which should be devoted exclusively to research and education in 

 these respective Parks. These funds should be independent of the 

 scanty Congressional appropriations and would tend to make them 

 much more effective, and they would do much to educate the public 

 in an intelligent use of such parks. \\'ho will question for a moment 

 that today we would not have the Katmai National Monument had 

 it not been for the scientific investigations which have been made 

 and are being continued by the National Geographic Society under 

 the leadership of Griggs? 



The Palisades Interstate Park needs just such an endowment and 

 such a staff, as I learned when cooperating with the Commissioners 

 as a representative of the Department of Forest Zoology in the 

 New York State College of Forestry. During the seasons of 

 1918 and 1919 the field parties of the Department of Forest Zoology 

 and of the Roosevelt Wild Life Forest Experiment Station con- 

 ducted their investigations on wild life in this Park (Adams, '19). 

 This was done through Mr. George W. Perkins, in immediate co- 

 operation with Mr. Edward F. Brown, Superintendent and later 

 Director, of the Camp Department of the Park. Later, a short 

 time before Mr. Perkins' last illness, a plan was presented to him 

 for field studies to be conducted cooperatively by the Park Com- 



