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Identifier: bookofnationalpa1920yard (find matches)
Title: The book of the national parks
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Yard, Robert Sterling, 1861-1945
Subjects: National parks and reserves
Publisher: New York : Charles Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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, of develop-ment and utilization undoubtedly began to take form.At least, conservation, as such, ceased to become asole motive. Insensibly Congress, or at least a fewmen of vision in Congress, began to take account ofstock and figure on realization. This healthy growth was helped materially bythe public demand for the improvement of several ofthe national parks. No thought of appropriatingmoney to improve the bathing facilities of Hot Springshad affected Congressional action for nearly half acentury; it was enough that the curative springs hadbeen saved from private ownership. Yellowstonewas considered so altogether extraordinary, however,that Congress began in 1879 to appropriate yearly forits approach by road, and for the protection of itssprings and geysers; but this was because Yellow-stone appealed to the public sense of wonder. Ittook twenty years more for Congress to understandthat the public sense of beauty was also worth appro-priations. Yosemite had been a national park for
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From a photograph by Pillsbury THE VOSEMITE FALLS—HIGHEST IN THE WORLDFrom the brink of the upper falls to the foot of the lower falls is almost half a mile NATIONAL PARKS OF UNITED STATES 27 nine years before it received a dollar, and then onlywhen public demand for roads, trails, and accommoda-tions became insistent. But, once born, the idea took root and spread.It was fed by the press and magazine reports of theglories of the newer national parks, then attractingsome public attention. It helped discrimination inthe comparison of the minor parks created in 1903and 1904 with the greater ones which had preceded.The realization that the parks must be developed atpublic expense sharpened Congressional judgment asto what areas should and should not become nationalparks. From that time on Congress has made no mis-takes in selecting national parks. Mesa Verde be-came a park in 1905, Glacier in 1910, Rocky Moun-tain in 1915, Hawaii and Lassen Volcanic in 1916,Mount McKinley in 1917, and L

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