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The National Park Story in Pictures

Yellowstone NP

"REHABILITATING" MORNING GLORY POOL, Yellowstone National Park. Morning Glory hot pool, aptly named because of its shape and exquisite coloring, was being choked to death by careless visitors. To save it from the fate of the once-famous Handkerchief Pool, which had been completely ruined by vandalism, the park's experts on hot water phenomena worked out a complicated sort of "stomach pump."

The forced eruption, caused by twelve lines of garden hose and scoop shovels, brought up 110 different types of objects. Among them were enough tax tokens to fill a 5-pound jar, $97.34 in coins, wearing apparel, Ingersoll watches, pocket knives and combs, whistles and sun glasses. (Photograph by Watson.)



DEBRIS FROM MORNING GLORY POOL

Yellowstone NP
Grand Canyon NP

ONCE A FIREPLACE, Grand Canyon National Park. The National Park Service provides, from tax money appropriated for it, facilities such as tables and chairs, fireplaces, and other necessities in free campgrounds. Here is shown a fireplace deliberately broken apart. Why? The question is difficult to answer.

AFTER A MOONLIGHT BARBECUE, Yosemite National Park. After a moonlight barbecue held on Sentinel Beach by about 150 people, the park staff found they had left all this debris. Either visitors should be willing to clean up the parks, which belong to them, after such a party; or they should be interested in having sufficient funds provided to make possible constant policing of the 25 million acres of land administered by the National Park Service.

Yosemite NP


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