NATIONAL PARKS AND FORESTS 
The serious student ought to inform himself fully regarding 
the methods by which national parks, forests and monuments are 
established, protected and administered; but most of all he should 
make for himself the opportunity to visit as many as possible of 
these possessions in which he is himself part owner. 
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Fia. 158. Precan Mountain, GuActER NATIONAL Park 
Photograph by Roserr Srertinc YARD 
National Parks 
The American National Parks, as popularly understood, are 
administered by the National Park Service, a bureau in the De- 
partment of the Interior. There are, however, seven other public 
parks administered by the War Department. These are all shown 
in the following lists: 
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