Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-25

where ne WILL plCch MS camp temporarily the
President will find convenient trout streams,
well supplied with fish, in which to satisfy his
piscatorial yearning.
A s to the Yellowstone, for instance, the Ma
& tional Park Service, which has supervision
over the ~ national parks In the United States,
reports that trout fishing in Yellowstone waters
Is unexcelled."
All three drainage basins in that most
famous national playground it is stated,
abound In trout which often attain large size.
The Yellowstone Lake is the home Of large
trout which are freely taken, the park Of
ficials assert, while the Yellowstone River and
its tributaries yield excellent catches to the
skillful angler. There is good fishing also
in the other rivers Of that large park, as
well as in many lesser lakes. The United
States Bureau of Fisheries during recent years
has been keeping tn. lakes and rivers Of the
national parks well stocked with fish, having
established special hatcheries for this pur-
pose and cooperating closely with the oficials
of the National Park Service in providing this
sport for all visitors to the various parks.
with the increasing facilities for the ac-
commodation of tourists to the parks with the
improvement or building Of automobile roads
to and through these pleasure resorts, the
number of visitors has been growing annually,
last year having totaled 2,68o,597 This year
it is expected to reach 100000. This growth
increase every year but one since 1914, when
it amounted to only 235,l93. In 1921 1t
passed the million mark, and in 1927 Tor the
first time exceeded 1000 600. In addition, last
year more than 100000 persons visited the
SO national monuments-national reservations
of historic or scientific interest, such the
petrifed forest in Arizona, the DinoSaur IN
Utah and the Shaco cliff-dweller ruins in New
Mexico-which also are administered by the
National Park Service.
The national parks, scattered mostly
throughout the western part OF the United
States from the Canadian border to Mexico,
with one on the Maine Coast, another In
Alaska and still another in Hawaii, and two
I'm prospect in the near future in the Appa-
Iachian section-Great Smoky, in North Caro-
tina and Tennessee, and the Shenandoah, in
Virgnia-offer the greatest playground given
hy any nation in the world to its people.
THESE great areas set apart for the perma-
"a nent use and enjoyment of the American
people not only afford opportunity for health
full and pleasant vacations; they combine nat
ural beauties and wonders which, taken as
whole are unexcelled in any other part
of the world. They are outdoor laboratories,
IN which the geologist, the botanist, the stu
dent of wild life and of nature in any Of its
varied and ever-varying forms may probably
spend weeks or months of intensive study.
The national parks constitute a perpetual art
gallery III WHICH Tie IoNcT Oh IOCkS aAu uccc
and skies, painted in all their natural colors by
the Master Hand of the universe, finds never
ending pleasure and surprise. They are . series
II museums in which are spread before the eye
u the beholder the geysers and the mud vol
eanoes of the Yellowstone, the giant trees of
1he Yosemite and Sequoia, the stupendously
wonderful canyon of the Grand Canyon, de-
bcribed 1.-The greatest example Of erosion and
t1ne mcst sublime spectacle In the world; the
extraordinary waterfalls of the Yellowstone and
Yosemite; the glaciers Of Mount Rainier and
GLACIER; the beautifully blue Crater Lake, lying
in the vast hollow Of an extinct volcano. with
sides 1000 feet high the prehistoric cliff DWELL
ings of the Mesa Verde; the Enthusiastically eroded
pinnacles Of the Bryce Canyon; the only active