. The Saturday evening post. that this dam will be put upabout a mile and a half below the lake andthat work has begun. In any fair general estimate of out-of-door affairs of the country the year 1920must be called the year of wrath. It was inJune of that year that Congress passed theWater Power Bill, which means not only theutilization of our great mountain streams,but which, unless amended, means alsothe ultimate ruin of some of our nationalparks. It was in this year, also, that there sud-denly broke into open attack the massedforces of the irrigation industry who areintent upon securing sto
. The Saturday evening post. that this dam will be put upabout a mile and a half below the lake andthat work has begun. In any fair general estimate of out-of-door affairs of the country the year 1920must be called the year of wrath. It was inJune of that year that Congress passed theWater Power Bill, which means not only theutilization of our great mountain streams,but which, unless amended, means alsothe ultimate ruin of some of our nationalparks. It was in this year, also, that there sud-denly broke into open attack the massedforces of the irrigation industry who areintent upon securing storage waters inpractically every one of our parks. We allknow how Hetch-Hetchy fared some yearsago in Yosemite Park—civilization and in-dustry won. How far are civilization andindustry going to continue to win? Are wegoing to be able to hold the lands of anynational park whatever? Are we richenough, strong enough, of vision wideenough, to keep any part of our wildernesscountry safe for all the people as against EVENING POST. commercial demands? Those questionscame to issue in the current year. Theanswer is not yet determined. The filings for water-power privilegeshave extended to practically all of the na-tional parks. As to the irrigation fight, thatwas most noticeable in Yellowstone Park,over whose bones, so it would seem, threestates willingly would soon be quarreling,or at least the two states of Idaho andMontana, certain individuals of which aredemanding the right to dam YellowstoneLake and to divert its waters to the usesof irrigation. It is earnestly suggested thatevery out-of-door man get into this gameat once. If you want anything of the oldwilderness country left, tell your senatorsand congressmen to kill every measurewhich looks toward putting up a dam in-side the limits of any national park. Thereis no need for it. We are rich enough toafford our parks. We do need is good incentive for their preserva-tion. That preservation is up to you andme. Let us be
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