Excerpt from Annual Report of the Director of the National Park Service to the Secretary of the Interior: Reprinted From the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the Fiscal Year Ended June 1942 The wisdom of the Nation in preserving these areas is clearly evident on the American continent today as increased demands upon our natural resources are invading and forever changing the native land scape. The national parks and monuments may soon be among the few places in the world where forests continue to evolve normally, where animal life remains in harmonious relationship to its environ ment, and Where the ways of Nature and its works may still be studied in the original design. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.