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the south and east so as to include a dense forest region abounding in 

 mountain torreuts, the headwaters of the Yellowstone and Snake Elvers. 

 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 affluents of the Snake from the northern spurs of the 

 Grand Tetons and Wind Eiver 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 

 Butte, Cache Calfee, Miller, and the Lamar Eivers on the west side of 

 the range, and Crandall, Sunlight, and Dead Indian Creeks, tributaries 

 to Clark Fork and the Stinking Water, an affluent of the Big Horn, 

 which ultimately drains into the Yellowstone, on the east side, will fall 

 within the reservation. 



Unless protected, encroachment v/ill soon be made upon this valuable 

 inheritance of the nation. iS'o 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 tban right here at 

 the headwaters of the Yellowstone and Snake, which send tbeir water^^ 

 from the heart of the continent to both the Atlantic and Pacific. 

 Very truly, youis, 



Arnold Hague. 



Prof. B. E. Fernow, 



Forestry Dlrision^ 



Department of Agriculture^ Washington, 



