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of the executive committee and the secretary
was R. S. Yard of the national parks service.
Among the outdoor BelmOre Browne,
explorer, author and artist; Henry G. Bryant,
plorer and president of the Geographical society Of
Philadelphia; William E. Colby, president of the
Sierra club; George Bird GriInen of the Boone
and Crockett club and Glacier National park pio-
neer; George D. Pratt, president of the Camp Fire
ci1b and Charles Sheldon, explorer, hunter and
author.
The American Game Protective and Propagation
association and the American Bison society
represented by their presidents, John B. Burnham
and Edmund Seymour. George F. Kunz president
of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation
society, member. The colleges contributed
w. w. Atwood, department of photography at
Harvard; President john H. Finley of the Uni
versity of the State of New York; E NJ Lehnerts.
department of geology of the University of Min
nesOta and pioneer in national parks classes
Others well known were Arthur Z. BestOr, presi-
dent Of the Chautauqua institution; DR.. ]. Walter
Fewkes, chief of the bureau of American ethnoi-
ogy; LaVerne W. Moves, president of the board
of trustees of the Chicago Academy OF Sciences,
and Mrs John Dickinson Sherman, conservation
chairman of the General Federation of Wonen's
clubs (the only woman).
This personnel assures the cooperation of many
public-sprited organizations, popular and learned.
from the beginning. The officers of the assoca-
ton President, Henry B. F. AIacfarland OF
Washington, D. G. Vice presidents Nicholas Muir
ray Butler president OF Columbia university;
John Mason Clarke, chairman of geology and pale
anthology, National Academy of Sciences; William
Kent of California; Henry SuzzaIlo, presi-
dent OF the University of the state of Washington
Treasurer Charles J. Bell, president of the Amer
lean Security and Trust company of Washington
Executive secretary, r. S. Yard Chairman ways
and means committee, Huston Thompson.
Congress cOnceiyeS the national parks as con-
crete possessions of the people. As such, it pro-
vides for the protection, maintenance and develop
ment of the parks. What use the people will
make of them is for the people to determine.
Here, then is where the National Parks associa-
ton finds its work 1t is in effect, an organiza-
ton of the people themselves to enable them to
effectively the magnificent reservations which
congress creates and the national parks service
maintains and develops.
1t will be seen that, while the functions of the
governmental bureau and the popular association
do not overlap, they nevertheless intimately
associated. In practical way the two are part
ners. each with its individual duties both working
toward common end.
To emphasize this individuality, the National
Parks association is entirely separate and distinct
from government. The association is nongovern-
mental and nonpartiSan.
The association purposes to be of use to its
series of beautifully and usefuIIy illustrated
wild life of the national parks and monuments /;
issue bulletins reporting national parks develop
ment state and other movements affecting ma
congress, and the progress of association activi-
ceive new government publications concerning ma