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tions is attested to by the ever increasing 

 throngs who yearly seek recreation in them. 



The National Park Service, control- 

 ing over 8,000,000 acres, states that the number 

 of visitors to the National Parks and Monuments 

 has increased from 356,000 in 1916 to over 

 1,000,000 in 1920. The imerican Scenic and 

 Historic Preservation Association gives the 

 number of visitors to the National Parks as 

 488,268 in 1917; 451,691 in 1918; and 

 755, 325 in 1919. According to the most 

 recent bulletin issued by the Sierre Club, 

 one and one-half million people used the National 

 forests of California alone, in 1921, of whom 

 full -eighty- five percent carried their camping 

 e quipment . 



Statistics of 1903, compiled by the 

 tka Superintendent of Forests, show that there 

 were hotel accommodations in the Adirondacks for 

 130,000 people; that during that year 451,000 

 people were accommodated; that 140,000 of them 

 remained for more than two weeks; and that 



#1 Numbers refer to References which are cited in 

 full in the appendix; the numbers in the text 

 run consecutively throughout the paper. 



