HISTORY 33 



ment of a resident deputy United States marshal. This 

 act was amended and made more practicable by the act of June 

 28, 1916 (39 Stat. L., 238), which, by modifying the punish- 

 ments prescribed, made it possible to treat violations as mis- 

 demeanors and thus do away with the necessity of formal in- 

 dictment. 



A fact not generally known is that the entire Yellowstone 

 area is not under National jurisdiction. The act of July 10, 

 1890 (26 Stat. L., 222), admitting Wyoming into the Union 

 retained national jurisdiction over the park area. This law 

 does not apply to the strips of the park located in Montana 

 and Idaho. These strips, however, are of very slight extent, 

 being only a few miles wide. The greater part of the park, 

 fully 95 per cent of the total area, is in Wyoming. , The situa- 

 tion, however, is one which contains many possibilities for con- 

 flict, especially in regard to game protection, attention to which 

 was called by the Chief Forester in his 1916 report. In the 

 Yellowstone region, comprising the park and adjacent national 

 forests, the game in the park, i. e., in the Wyoming portion 

 of it, is under national jurisdiction, while the game in the 

 forests and in the Idaho and Montana park strips is under 

 state jurisdiction, there being three states with differing laws 

 to reckon with. 



That provision of the organic act creating the National 

 Park Service which gives the Secretary of the Interior author- 

 ity to permit grazing at his discretion in the parks and monu- 

 ments does not apply to the Yellowstone. No grazing is per- 

 mitted there. 



As has been stated above, the military were finally with- 

 drawn from the Yellowstone in 1918, and entire control since 

 that time has been in the hands of the National Park Service. 



Yosemite. Yosemite's history as a park dates back to be- 

 fore the days of the Yellowstone, the valley proper and the 

 Mariposa Big Tree Grove having been granted to the State 

 of California for use as a state park by the act of June 30, 

 1864 (13 Stat. L., 325). The whole of this park area was 



