Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1925-06-04

Is: Yellowstone June Is and Crater Lake Gore
gon) and Mount Mckinley (Aaska) July i. In
most of the national parks the visitor will find i'm
provements in roads and trails and anto camps
This is important, inasmuch approximately
threefourths of the visitors travel in their cars
and large proportion uses camps.
1926 visitors however will find vast amount
of Improvement. Under the National Park High
ways act Of 1924 authorizing the appropriation of
$7500,O00 for the carrying out of a three-years
road and trail construction program, $2,5OO,OOO is
available this season and work will be pushed. In
Rocky Mountain, which has been allotted $14O,5OO
six projects will be benefited; the Fall River Road
and the High Drive will get most of the money
The former road which crosses the Continental
Divide on the "Roof Of the World at an elevation
of 11,797 feet, is the highest automobile highway
in the national park system and possibly the most
scenic earth. Glacier gets $453000 and of this
$4,000 is to be spent on the Transmountain Road
over the Continental Divide. This road is badly
needed, since there is no road through the park
and to get from the East Entfgnce to the West En-
trance rail shipment of cars is necessary or long
detour by way of Helena, Mont. All the national
parks share in the appropriation In addition the
secretary of the interior is authorized to approve
projects and made additional contracts to the ex-
tent of 81, 100000.
The situation as to the proposed national parks
in the Appalachians is briefly this: commission
appointed by Secretary Work reported last Deem
Der approving areas in the Blue Ridge mountains
of Virginia and the Great Smoky mountains of
Tennessee and recommending the former as the
more accessible Several national park bills were
thereupon introduced. Congress then passed bill
providing for more complete survey Of these two
areas and of Mammoth Cave and it's surroundings
and for recommendations by the secretary to
boundaries. Appropriation of $4,000 made
for expenses options, etc. Secretary Work ap-
pointed commission which is at work this sum-
mer. This action by congress does not commit 1t
to the establishment Of any Of the three proposed
parks, but would seem to indicate its willingness
to consider departure from the previous policy of
refusal to purchase land for national park pur-
poses. All three areas privately owned; the
cost Of each would be at least a million dollars
The existing national parks except Lafayette (do
nated) have been created from the public domain
and from the national forests
The Geological Society of America has asked
congress to establish national park in the Glacier
Ray region of southeast Alaska. An ecologst is
sort Of botanical evolutionist who wants to know
how nature adapts itself to circumstances. In the
Glacier Bay region there is eternal warfare be-
tween ice and forest. A glacier overwhelms a for
est A new forest springs up in the destruction
left behind In this region is the Muir glacier, with
q sea front 300 feet high and more than mile
long It throws down fragments as big sky
scraper and the waves rock big steamer mile
AWAY Why not Muir National park-if the ecolo-
gists are granted their request? In the meantime
President Coolidge has created the Glacier Bay Ma
The Redwoods of California, first cousins of the
Big Trees are safe from extinction, even if the
proposed Redwoods National park is not created
Save the Redwoods League has raised more than
S75OOOO for the purchase of virgin redwood groves
al North and South Dyerville Flats and Bull Creek
Flat These groves intended to be a part OF
the Humboldt State Redwood park. The groves
contain many trees more than 1000 years DID, 800
feet in height and fifteen feet in diameter.
President Coolidge has made national monu-
ment of the Carlsbad Cave in the southeast cor
ner of New Mexico, the Texas state line. Con-
gress had made appropriation for the driving of
a shaft into the cave; access is now by rope-and-
bucket through hole in the roof. Moving pic
tures Of its interior as revealed by explorers with
torches show underground world unbelievably
fantastic. The cavern seems to be in class by
itself in extent, size of chambers and richness Of
ornamentation One chamber is nearly mile long.
and approximately 900 feet wide with roof of
known height Any estimate OF the extent Of the
cavern is purely guesswork.