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the south and east so as to include a dense forest region abounding in 
mountain torrents, the headwaters of the Yellowstone and Snake Rivers. 
At the time the Park was set aside by act of Congress in 1872 but little 
was known of the region and its relations to the adjacent country, and 
still less was its real value appreciated as one of the nation’s most avail- 
able reservoirs. This proposed enlargement embraces all the water 
draining into the Yellowstone river and lake from the Absaroka 
range and all aliluents of the Snake from the northern spurs of the 
Grand Tetons and Wind River range. To accomplish this enlargement 
necessitates placing the boundaries 25 miles farther to the eastward 
and 9 miles to the southward of the present lines. By this addition to 
the domain of the Park the headwaters and timber areas around Soda 
sutte, Cache Calfee, Miller, and the Lamar Rivers on the west side of 
the range, and Crandall, Sunlight, and Dead Indian Creeks, tributaries 
to Clark Fork and the Stinking Water, an afiluent of the Big Horn, 
which ultimately drains into the Yellowstone, on the east side, will fall 
within the reservation. 
Unless protected, encroachment will soon be made upon this valuable 
inheritance of the nation. No serious difficulties arise against placing 
this additional territory within the Park forever. If timber lands near 
the sources of our large rivers are to be carefully guarded by national 
legislation there is no better place to begin the work than right here at 
the headwaters of the Yellowstone and Snake, which send their waters 
from the heart of the continent to both the Atlantic and Pacific. 
Very truly, yours, 
ARNOLD HAGUE, 
Prof. B. E. FERNow, 
Forestry Division, 
Department of Agriculture, Washing.on. 

