Each park has a distinct personality and each is a wild game 
sanctuary. The nineteen parks chronologically in order of their 
creation are: Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas; Yellowstone, 
Wyoming; Sequoia, Yosemite and General Grant, California; Mount 
Rainier, Washington; Crater Lake, Oregon; Wind Cave, South 
Dakota; Piatt, Oklahoma; Sullys Hill, North Dakota; Mesa Verde, 
Colorado; Glacier, Montana; Rocky Mountain, Colorado; Hawaii, 
Hawaiian Islands; Lassen Volcanic, California; Mount McKinley, 
Alaska; Grand Canyon, Arizona; Lafayette, Maine; and Zion, Utah. 
Every opportunity is to be afforded the public to enjoy these 
parks in the manner that best satisfies the individual taste. Auto- 
mobiles and motorcycles are permitted where roads are available, 
and new and additional roads will be built as funds are provided. 
In all improvement work, particular attention wiU be devoted to 
harmonizing these improvements with the landscape. To this end, 
trained landscape engineers are employed. All outdoor sports are 
heartily endorsed and aided wherever possible. The educational, 
as well as the recreational, use of both national parks and monu- 
ments is encouraged in every practical way: universities and 
high-school classes in natural science find unlimited opportunities 
to pursue their vacation-period studies. Last year in Yosemite 
National Park a free nature guide service was provided, which met 
with instantaneous and popular success. Museums containing spec- 
imens of wild flowers, shrubs and trees and mounted animals, birds, 
fish native to the park, and other exhibits of this character have al- 
ready been established in a few of the parks. 
It is the aim of the Service to provide comfortable, low-priced 
pubHc camps for the accommodation of tourists, maintained by author- 
ized operators. As the motorist is coming to the national parks in 
rapidly increasing numbers a system of free camp grounds is being 
developed where the motorist may camp out with his own equipment. 
These grounds have adequate water and sanitation facihties. A new 
feature which is planned for the free camp grounds is that of combined 
Ranger Stations and Community Centers, where tourists can obtain 
reliable information concerning the natural features of the parks and 
where they can assemble during inclement weather. 
Greater protection of our wild animal and bird life can be accom- 
plished through closer co-operation of both Federal and State govern- 
ments, and of our citizens. All parks created should be wild Ufa 
sancturies. Wild flowers and shrubs and trees would be protected 
because of individual, local, State and National pride in ownership, 
and the great lessons of conservation will be more easily learned 
through possession of the best our country offers in its scenery. 
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