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

The pictures given herewith show suggestive
glimpses of typical national park scenery. No. !
is Trick Falls in Gacier-merely one of hundreds
of varying forms and sizes in the parks. Nos.
and contrasting trails; there thousands
equally attractive. These two are in Rocky Noun
tain.
No. is good likeness in silhouette of Director
Stephen T. EIather of the national park service,
a unique figure among federal officials. He is
rich enthusiast who devOtes all his time to the ma
tional parks and annually spends on them in dona-
tons many times the amount of his salary. He
appointed by Secretary Lane in the Wilson
cabinet; changing administrations very properly
have continued him in his post for twelve years
The pen sketch, No. :, is after spirited color
drawing by r. Bruce Horsfall in the Nature Maya
zine of that kingly biggame animal, the wapit or
American elk 1t is extinct in most of its former
habitats. There still something like 10000 elk
in the two Yellowstone herds but radical measures
will be necessary to prevent their determination.
The winter SHOWS drive the elk from their
mer feeding grounds in the mountains and force
them beyond the park lines. Then hunters-so
caled-slaughter them-or they starve on lands
already stripped of forage by cattle and by hay
makers. The movement to add enough territory
to Yellowstone on the south to feed these herds is
: apparently doomed to failure; the ranchers op-
pose it and the forest service in it's efforts to
make the national forests competitor of the
tional parks, is planning "mass recreation in the
region incidentally the Izaak Walton league is
raising fund of 100000 for the purchase of lands
for the feeding of the Yellowstone elk in winter
No. 6 shows Timberline House Q1,500 feet eleva-
tion) on the trail up Longs peak in Rocky Noun
tain This famous shelter familiar to the majority
Of the than 100000 visitors to Rocky Noun
tain since its establishment in 1915, figured largely
in the tragedy of last January which cost the lives
of Miss Agnes w. Vale, secretary of the Denver
chamber of commerce, and Herbert Sortland care.
taker Of Longs Peak inn in Tahosa valley. Miss
Vale, member of the Colorado Mountain club
and of the most noted mountaineers of the
country and Walter Kiener an experienced noun
taineer from Switzerland left Timberline House at
noon, descended to Chasm lake in East gorge and
climbed up the almost perpendicular 230G-foot
East Face of Longs Peak. They arrived on The
Summit (14,255 feet) at o'clock the next morn
ing. Here they were beset by storm of wind
and snow. They attempted to descend the north
slope to Boulder Field Miss Vale became ex-
hausted. Kiener kept on to Timberline House,
where he found a rescue party He led the way
back to Miss Vaile who was found dead In the
meantime Sortland had become lost from the res
party. Searching parties, recruited from Estes
Park, did their best in vain. Miss Vaile's body
was recovered with difficulty Sortland's body
was not found until February 25 near Longs Peak
inn. Kiener lost most of his fingers and toes from
the effects of freezing The rescue parties using
Timberline House nearly frOze to death in the
ramshackle old structure. An adequate shelter is
mperatively needed than thousand visi-
tcrs ascend Longs Peak--by the regular trail
each summer and there is other shelter.
Winter sports in the national parks increas-
ing in popularity. Rocky Mountain, an all-year
park, had visitors all winter and its March pro-
gram attracted more than 1000 participants and
spectators Mount Rainier had nearly 10000 visi-
tors during the winter, eager for winter sports
SequOa and General Grant and Yosemite were
popular.
coming feature of the national parks is their
educational use, with the aid of nature guides mu-
seums and natural history lectures Yosemite gets
good start with the Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Memorial museum. It's cost is $4,000 and it will
be opened this summer Several of the other parks
have made modest beginnings