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INDEX 



Mammoth Cave, proposed park to 

 include, 14. 



Mariposa Grove, 33. 



Medical Service, 57-58. 



Mesa Verde National Park, per- 

 mits to excavate in, 37; his- 

 tory, 37-38; ruins in, 51; laws, 

 112-113. 



Mining claims, acquisition of in 

 Greater Yellowstone area per- 

 missible, 14; Supreme Court 

 decision regarding, 24-25 ; 

 further location forbidden in 

 Mount Rainier, 35 ; discretion- 

 ary allowance of in Grand Can- 

 yon, 40; no restrictions on in 

 Mount McKinley, 40. 



Montezuma County, Colorado, 



37- 



Motion pictures, 58-59. 



Motor vehicles, 17. 



Mount Desert Island, 41. 



Mount Lassen, 39. 



Mount McKinley National Park, 

 history, 40; laws, 119-120. 



Mount Rainier National Park, U. 

 S. Engineers in, 26, 35; his- 

 tory, 35-36; hotel system in, 

 56; laws, 107-108. 



Mount Whitney, Greater Sequoia 

 area includes, 14. 



Muir, John, opposes Hetch 

 Hetchy project, 10. 



Muir Woods, 44. 



Mukuntuweap National Monu- 

 ment, 41. 



Museums, establishment of 

 directed, 17; Mesa Verde, 38. 



National Geographic Society, 

 gifts of, 24, 35. 



National Monuments, power of 

 President to create, 7; distinc- 

 tion between parks and, 8; 

 factor determining administra- 

 tion of, 44; under Dept. of 

 Interior, 43-46; under War De- 



partment, 47; under Dept. of 



Agriculture, 48. 

 National park, the first, 5-7. 

 National park conferences, 9, 11. 

 "National Park Idea," the, origin 



of, 2-3; gist, 19; menaced, 19- 



20; versus the automobile, 28; 



determines Service's activities, 



50. 



National Park Service Act, 

 amendments to, 12-13; text of, 

 87-88. 



National park system, beginning 

 of, I, 4; oldest member of, 5; 

 result of the "National Park 

 Idea," 7; prior to 1916, 



'■ 8-9. 



National Park-to-Park-Highway, 

 27-28. 



National parks, projects for ad- 

 ditional, 14, 18-19, 24; list of, 

 29-30; individual sketches of, 

 31-43; growth of interest in, 



49- 

 National parks portfolio, 12. 



Oklahoma, constitutional provi- 

 sion of regarding federal juris- 

 diction, 37. 



Painting Section, Yellowstone, 



65- 



Patents and Miscellaneous, Divi- 

 sion, 9. 



Payne, Secretary, opposition of, 

 to park exploitation, 21-22. 



Personnel, 61. 



Petrified Forest, 44. 



Piatt National Park, history, 36- 

 37; laws, iio-iii. 



Poaching,, 32, 40, 53. 



Post Office Department, parcel 

 post deliveries by, in Yosemite, 

 57- 



President of the United States, 

 the, discretionary power of, to 

 create monuments, 7; rules for 



