STATE PARKS 
Study 
The pupil must first of all make a complete inventory of all the 
state parks, forests and other reservations in his state. If his state 
also contains national parks, forests or monuments, or any important 
reserves of any other nature other than state lands, these should 
also be listed, but the state properties are to be especially regarded 
in this study. This list should include a statement of where each 
area is located and its area. The compilation of this inventory may 
prove a difficult task, but it should certainly be carried out in full. 
Secondly the student should ascertain who is administratively 
responsible for these areas and what form of managenent is actually 
in force. If the state is making appropriations for maintenance the 
amount of such appropriations should be ascertained. Any other 
sources of maintenance should likewise be determined. 
Lastly the student should consider carefully what additional 
areas within his state should he set aside as parks, as forests and as 
historical reservations. Naturally these matters can not be settled 
without considerable study. Discussion in class groups will tend 
to clarify everybody’s ideas. It will be well for the teacher to re- 
quire each pupil finally to make a well-studied written report on 
this subject accompanied by a state map showing existing proper- 
ties and those proposed for acquisition. 
Readings 
Noten, State Parks, in Park and Cemetery, Chicago, March, 1911, 
p. 687 
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