selves along educational and recreational lines and in the rendering of service for the physical comfort and convenience of our guests A constantly increasing annual visiting list brings added responsi bilities. But while there is a great deal remaining to be done to make the parks and monuments measure up to the highest degree of service, I am confident that the period covered by this report has been one of unusual achievement and progress to which I may point with pride and pleasure.

STEPHEN T. MATHER, Director.

APPENDIX A

THE NATIONAL PARKS AND MONUMENTS

national parks administered by the National Park Service, Department of the nterior

national military and other parks administered by the War Departmentnational monuments administered by the National Park Service, Department f the Interior__.

national monuments administered by the Department of Agriculture.. national monuments administered by the War Department_

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NATIONAL PARKS ADMINISTERED BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR [Number, 19; total area, 11,372 square miles, or 7,277,824.54 acres; chronologically in order of creation]

(46 hot springs possessing curative prop-
erties Many hotels and boarding
houses-19 bathhouses under Gov-
ernment supervision.

More geysers than in all rest of world
together-Boiling springs-Mud vol-
canoes-Petrified forests-Grand
Canyon of the Yellowstone, remark-
able for gorgeous coloring-Large
lakes-Waterfalls-Vast wilderness
inhabited by deer, elk, bison, moose,
antelope, bear, mountain sheep,
etc.-Greatest wild bird and animal
preserve in the world.

The Big Tree National Park-Several
hundred sequoia trees over 10 feet in
diameter, some 25 to 36 feet in diame-
ter-Towering mountain ranges-
Startling precipices-Mile-long cave
of delicate beauty-Fine trout fishing.
(Valley of world-famed beauty-Lofty
cliffs-Romantic vistas-Waterfalls
of extraordinary height-3 groves of
big trees-Large areas of snowy
peaks Waterwheel Falls-Good
trout fishing.

Created to preserve the celebrated
General Grant Tree, 35 feet in di-
ameter 6 miles from Sequoia Na-
tional Park.

Largest accessible single-peak glacier
system-28 glaciers, some of large
size 48 square miles of glacier, 50 to
500 feet thick-Wonderful subalpine
wild-flower fields.

Lake of extraordinary blue in crater of
extinct volcano, no inlet, no outlet-
Sides 1,000 feet high-interesting lava
formations-Fine fishing.

Yosemite (yo-sem'-I-te).

1 In Wyoming, 3,114 square miles; in Montana, 198 square miles; in Idaho, 36 square miles. Estimated.