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National Park Service. House Report No. 700. From House Reports (Public). 64th Congress. 1st Session. December 6, 1915-September 8, 1916.

U.S. Congress. 64th. 1st Session.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : District of Columbia : Washington Government Printing Office 1916 05 17

SUMMARY
Report from the Committee on the Public Lands, recommending that H. R. 15522, a bill to establish a national park service, be passed, inasmuch as it incorporates the amendments recommended by the committee as a substitute for other bills on the same subject (H.R. 8668 and H.R. 434). The report includes the text of H.R. 15522, and presents the arguments for its passage, notably the need for a park service separate from the Forest Service because the national parks are devoted to "the preservation of nature as it exists," whereas the national forests have "as primary objects and purposes the utilitarian use of land, of water, and of timber." Also includes statistics on the number of visitors to each national park, 1908 to 1915, and correspondence in favor of the establishment of a national park service from Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane and Secretary of Agriculture D.F. Houston.

NOTES
Part of the legislative record for the National Park Service Act (39 Stat. 535).

Published 1916.

SUBJECTS
Legislative document
National parks and reserves
Landscape protection
Wildlife conservation
Recreation
National monuments

MEDIUM
0007

CALL NUMBER
Serial No. 6904

PART OF
Serial Set

DIGITAL ID
amrvl vl552

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