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 Such perhaps is the case with even so large a tract 

 as the Palisades Interstate Park, emb racing approxi- 

 mately 36,000 acres along the Hudson Hirer, the resort 

 of not less than 1,000,000 persons, each year. It 

 is a greet recreational grounds for general camping, 

 with free facilities for boating, canoeing and 

 picnicing, readily accessible to nearly half the 

 entire population of Nww York City. It becomes a 

 practical school for conservation and supports a 

 vast open-air camping development. It offers a site 

 for vacation outings not only for thousands of 

 tenement children, but for hundreds of tanement 

 children's mothers who also come to these camps, to som2 

 the first outing in many years; a welcome escape from 

 the burdens of the household drudgery to the 

 inspiring contact of the out-of-doors. This, camp 

 development of the Palisades Interstate Park, says 

 George W. Perkins, in an article in the Conservation - 



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ist "is based on the therry that the large, 

 forest domain can, under proper supervision, be 

 utilized without impairing its natural beauty, and 

 at the same time enhancing the lives of people through 



health and recreational programs And above all 



and aside from concrete examples of actual contact 

 with forest domains on the part of city dwellers, 

 there is that immeasurable joy which comes to the 

 heart of the child from the city streets, to whom 



