. The national parks portfolio. HE Yellowstone National Park is the largest and most widely cele-brated of our national parks. It is a wooded wilderness of thirty-three hundred square miles. It contains more geysers than arefound in the rest of the world together. It has innumerable boilingsprings whose steam mingles with the clouds. It has many rushing rivers and large lakes. It has waterfalls of greatheight and large volume. It has fishing waters unexcelled. It has canyons of sublimity, one of which presents a spectacle of brokencolor unequaled. It has areas of petrified forests with trunks
. The national parks portfolio. HE Yellowstone National Park is the largest and most widely cele-brated of our national parks. It is a wooded wilderness of thirty-three hundred square miles. It contains more geysers than arefound in the rest of the world together. It has innumerable boilingsprings whose steam mingles with the clouds. It has many rushing rivers and large lakes. It has waterfalls of greatheight and large volume. It has fishing waters unexcelled. It has canyons of sublimity, one of which presents a spectacle of brokencolor unequaled. It has areas of petrified forests with trunks standing. Ithas innumerable wild animals which have ceased unduly to fear man; in fact,it is unique as a bird and animal sanctuary. It has great hotels and many public camps. It has two hundred miles ofexcellent roads. In short, it is not only the wonderland that common report describes; it isalso the fitting playground and pleasure resort of a great people; it is also theideal summer school of nature study. (13). Photograph by George R K:ng The Upper Falls of the Yellowstone, a Few Miles Below Yellowstone LakeAbove these falls the rushing river lies nearly level with surrounding country; below it begin the canyons
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