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ences in submitting a plan for the management 

 of the Forest Reserves recommended that places 

 specially scenic be separated from the Forest 

 Reserves and set aside as Parks and given the 

 separate and special administration which parks 

 need. If scenery is to be saved, it must be saved 

 for its own sake, on its own merits ; it cannot be 

 saved as something incidental. 



Multitudes will annually visit these places, 

 provided they be developed as parks and used 

 for people and for nothing else. Grazing, lum- 

 bering, shooting, and other commercial, con- 

 flicting, and disfiguring uses should be rigidly 

 prohibited. Scenery, like beauty, has superior 

 merit, and its supreme use is by people for rest 

 and recreation purposes. 



Switzerland after long experience is establish- 

 ing National Parks and giving these a separate 

 and distinct management from her forest re- 

 serves. For a time Canadian National Parks 

 were managed by the Forest Service. Recently, 

 however, the parks were withdrawn from the 

 Forest Service and placed in a Park Depart- 

 ment. This was a most beneficial change. For- 



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