NATIONAL PARKS AND FORESTS 
It is desirable further, for the sake of general information, for 
each pupil to read as many books as possible from the list of refer- 
ences given below. 
If the teacher or members of the class have visited important 
parks, forests, or monuments, it will be desirable to receive from 
them their personal accounts of the places visited. Photographs, 
lantern slides, maps and other materials are sometimes available so 
as to give additional vividness to the common knowledge of these 
reservations. All such helps should be utilized to the utmost. 
Questions 
1. What are the leading National Parks, both in the United 
States and Canada? And what are the outstanding features of each? 
2. What are the most important National Monuments? 
3. What National Forests contain especially important scenery? 
4, What are the practical and legal differences between Na- 
tional Parks, National Forests and National Monuments? 
5. Why are these Parks, Forests and Monuments mainly in 
the western states? 
6. Would it be desirable to increase such national holdings 
largely in the middle, eastern and southern states? How could it 
be done? 
7. What line of distinction should be maintained between 
National Parks and State Parks? Between National Forests and 
State Forests? 
8. Are there important areas still outside these national res- 
ervations which should be brought in either as National Parks or 
National Forests? 
Reference Readings 
Yarp, Book of the National Parks. 
ALLEN, Guide to National Parks of America. 
Murr, Our National Parks. 
BoerKER, Our National Forests. 
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