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pending legislation is a compromise bill, and excludes from the proposed en- 

 larged park all debatable areas — that is, territory about which there may fairly 

 be any question as to comparative value for vacation or commercial purposes. 



This bill also cuts off three townships of the seven which now comprise 

 Sequoia National Park. These three townships hold the Garfield, Atwell Mill, 

 and other fine Sequoia groves as well as the glorious plateau country of 

 Hockett Meadows. The additional proposed park area contains so much na- 

 tural beauty and is so fitting for a vacation area that only the impossibility of 

 securing by other means the Kern and Kings caiions with their adjacent moun- 

 tain peaks, glaciers, and alpine lakes could reconcile the National Park Service 

 to the loss of so much essentially park territory. In other words, we feel that 

 we had better have a gerrymandered Roosevelt-Sequoia National Park than 

 forego any enlargement and the inclusion of such pre-eminent features as 

 Mount Whitney, the Kings and Kern canons, and Tehipite Valley. Should 

 the three southern townships be removed from the park, steps should be taken 

 to protect the deer and other game, which for thirty years, since the creation of 

 the park in 1890, have enjoyed a full measure of Government protection. A 

 game preserve should be created. The Sequoia groves will, it is believed, be 

 protected under any conditions. 



LASSEN VOLCANIC NATIONAL PARK 



The Lassen Volcanic is the only park in the system that was not actively ad- 

 ministered for the traveling public by the National Park Service. Congress 

 granted a small appropriation of three thousand dollars for the present fiscal 

 year, which was expended, as was the small sum granted last year, under 

 direction of the supervisor of the Lassen Forest through a co-operative agree- 

 ment with the Forest Service in the improvement of an old existing road near 

 the southwest corner of the park. 



The area was and is considered of sufficient scenic and scientific interest to 

 warrant its status as a national park, and is therefore entitled to proper pro- 

 tection and development, which can not be secured on an annual appropriation 

 of even five thousand dollars, the limit of appropriation permissible under 

 existing law. It is evident that this inhibition on the annual appropriation 

 for the park must be removed before any worth-while steps can be taken to 

 make the reservation accessible. 



MUIR WOODS NATIONAL MONUMENT 



The department has accepted two gifts of land to be added to the Muir Woods 

 National Monument — one from Hon. William Kent and Mrs. Kent, the donors 

 of the original monument area, and one from the Mount Tamalpais & Muir 

 Woods Railway. These lands have been formally added to the monument by 

 presidential proclamation signed by President Harding September 22d. These 

 gifts of land are but another proof of Mr. and Mrs. Kent's enthusiastic interest 

 in the monument, which has never flagged since they deeded the first tract to 

 the Government for monument purposes in igo8. 



A study of conditions in the monument in April by Mr. Kent and the field 

 assistant of the National Park Service disclosed an unsatisfactory state of 

 affairs in connection with the protection of the reservation. It was found that 



