OWNERSHIP OF SCENERY 



belong to the public, and the public ought 

 to have the use of them. They are more 

 valuable than Carnegie libraries, for books 

 can be replaced. They are more beautiful 

 than picture galleries, more elevating than 

 churches, more hygienic than hospitals, and 

 more enduring than systems of philosophy. 



State parks, then, should be chosen and 

 delimited, first, for the types of natural 

 landscape beauty which they offer; second, 

 for their size, for they ought to be large; 

 third, for their availability for campers and 

 vacationists. Such selections of sites ought 

 to be made only under the advice of expert 

 landscape architects; and the scheme of 

 management ought to be designed by 

 similarly well-trained men. 



In most states the title to such parks 

 may rest directly in the commonwealth, and 

 this is the sentimentally preferable way. 

 In other states there can be established 

 special boards of trustees or state park 

 commissions, as in Wisconsin. In other 

 states the titles to land and the respon- 

 sibility for management might vest in 

 boards or institutions already established, 

 as in a state board of forestry or of agri- 

 culture, or in a state university. 



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