Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-05-15
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nothing more than establish peace anu co-opera-
ton between the Interior and Agricultural uepall-
ments, it will accomplish much. For ten years
the Agricultural department has staged tue a.
tonishng spectacle of a campaign Dotn open anu
secret to wrest from the Interior department the
control of the national parks 1t has set up the ma
tional forests established for the purely CONNER
cial purposes Of numbering grazing and forest pro-
tectiOn-as competitors of the national parks III
outdoor recreation 1t has spent hundreds OF thou
sands Of dollars in building roads and establishing
centers for purely recreation purposes The
charge is made that opposes the creation OF ma
tional parks-because national parks are usually
taken from national forests. 1t would transfer
the national service bodily from the Interior de-
partment to the Agricultural department. There
are strong intimations in the tentative program
that this warfare between the two departments
will be stopped and the question settled. There
is also the further lntimatton that there may be
established new class of recreation reservations,
possibly under control Of new kind of admins
trative body.
The discriminating reader has doubtless noted
that the pictures herewith are something entirely
acknowledgements of national park scenery from
airplanes. Such photography is exceedingly diff
fcult and dangerous because of air conditions
among the high peaks The Tetons (about 1900
feetl are in western Wyoming famous land
marks and are included in the proposed addition
70 Yellowstone National park Mount Whitney
~ 5O1 feet) is the highest mountain in continental
Tinted States 1t is in California and is included
in the proposed Roosevelt-SeQuoia National park.
The photograph of Haeakala (11,OOO feet) in the
Hawaiian National park shows the grea crater full
TO the rim of billowing clouds.
Rut the million and more visitors to the nation
oil marks and monuments must still go in by car
and new roads are continuously being made for
Thorn A small picture shows construction work
~ tba wind River Canyon highway, near Their
nonolis. Wyo, to be opened this season. The
road is part Of the Yellowstone highway and the
National Park-to-Park highway. It is ID miles
lono 90 per cent Of its grading is solid granite
and the cost is over $5OO,00O
r would take pages instead of columns to give
oil the national park news. There are thlrteen
hills in congress for the establishment OF new ma
+;o,al marks The fitness of Bryce canyon in Utah
has baen officially established. Secretary Work
80 oono;nted q committee to make ali exploratory
,ov of the Southern Appalachian mountains
visitors to the national parks in 1923 numbered
, 600 ooe and TO the national monuments 212,326
considerable increase. Rocky Mountain as
,1s led with 21S,000. Yellowstone was second
~ 79s 352 Private automobiles numbered I'll
900 Rocky Mountain had two months OF WINTER
.,1orts in February and March and many visitors.
HH,o famous Fall River road (11,797 feet) over
+ho ..Roof Of the World" will be cleared OF snow
nd omen for travel June 10.
rho national park revenues for the fiscal year
of 1909 were S513,477 Senator Shortridge OF Cal
ifornia has introduced bill providing for tDelr
use in the parks; they now go into the treasury
Congress has just passed bill authorizing the
making of road budget in the national parks ana
monuments which calls for $7500,OOO to be spread
over a three-year period