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Sierra Club Bulletin, 



Extracts from Report of the Acting Superintendent of 

 Sequoia and General Grant National Park. (1911.) 



There was quite an increase in the number of tourists enter- 

 ing the parks this season over that of last season, as follows : 



The total for both parks was 5,274, compared with 3,585 for 

 last year. The present railroad station for the Sequoia Park 

 is Lemon Cove. There is a hotel at this place. The River 

 Inn Co. has a hotel and store one mile above Three Rivers 

 and about ten miles from Lemon Cove, on the road to the 

 Giant Forest. The same company also furnishes tent hotel 

 accommodations and furnishes campers' supplies at Camp 

 Sierra, in the Giant Forest. 



Extension of the parks has been discussed by several of my 

 predecessors, and a variety of new boundaries have been 

 suggested and the advantages and disadvantages to the park 

 that would result from such extensions have been gone over 

 quite thoroughly. In thinking over the matter and discussing 

 the same with the rangers on duty in the Sequoia Park, who 

 have a thorough knowledge of the country and several years' 

 experience of active duty in their present positions, I am of 

 the opinion that the boundary suggested by Mr. R. B. Marshall, 

 chief topographer. Geological Survey, would be most desirable. 



This boundary is a natural one, being the ridge line of 

 numerous mountain chains. Practically all the new territory 

 that would be acquired is now in the national forest, is of 

 little value commercially, and of great value as a park reserve. 

 Its natural beauties are great and varied, there is compara- 

 tively little deeded land within the indicated boundary, it 

 forms a natural game preserve, and within this extensive area 

 game of all kinds should prosper and increase rapidly, and be 

 able to escape the hunter that each year is promptly, at the 

 opening of the hunting season, at the most desirable points 

 for the killing of such game, that by reason of the protection 

 afforded by park regulations, easily fall victims to the en- 

 thusiastic and persistent hunter. These ridges are natural 

 barriers and the game is not apt to stray or roam beyond them. 

 Also within this proposed area there are some of the finest 

 trout streams in the world, and these streams and the fishing 

 therein should be so regulated as to preserve their reputation 

 indefinitely. 



