SIERRA CLUB BULLETIN 



VOLUME XI 



NUMBER 2 



SAN FRANCISCO 

 JANUARY 

 1921 



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NO TRESPASSING! 



John Barton Payne, Secretary of the Interior 



^J^^^o^ther country in the world has such wonderful national 

 parks as our own. I^o persons who know the health, recreation, 

 and pleasure afforded to the people by these permanent breath- 

 ing-places, filled as they are with natural objects of the greatest 

 interest and with wild animals, birds, and flowers, it would 

 seem that the American people should insist that they be per- 

 manently preserved, free from e'^ery form of commercialization. 



"To me it isperfe5ily plain that the wise course for the Go"))- 

 ernment is to hold that when a national park is once set aside 

 it shall remain the property of the whole people for e'^er, and 

 shall not be trespassed upon by any business or commercial use. 

 Unless this policy is followed, encroachment will ultimately im- 

 pair, if not destroy, our national parks. 



'^he argument of utility should not be entertained. Indeed, it 

 can nearly always be met by the plain statement that the water 

 sought for reclamation and power -purposes does not remain im- 

 prisoned in the parks but may be utilized after it flows from them. 



