Abstract

The National Parks' Peril

The article discusses about a powerful campaign to seize water for irrigation and power that has nearly succeeded with the present U.S. Congress. It will need the personal effort of men and women of vision and patriotism all over this land to save for the whole people a precious American institution from selfish economic exploitation by a few. This campaign is two-fold -- on the one hand the irrigation wing, whose advance was stopped temporarily just short of its objective; on the other hand, the water power wing, which carried all its first trenches. The irrigation attack is centered on Yellowstone Park, but its success will furnish precedent for a score or more of projects already organized to seize the waters of other national parks.