[319]_Annual Report of the Acting Superintendent 1894_, p. 661.
[320]There have been exceptions to the rule. Certain animals have been classed as predators at given times and thinned out.
[321]The average sagebrusher (camper) considers bears as an unmitigated nuisance. Because of them, he must exercise vigilance at all times or his food will be carried away.
[322]_Reports of the Department of the Interior 1918_, p. 827.
Strong demands were also made to open the Park for sheep grazing.
[323]_Report of the Secretary of the Interior 1938_, p. 6.
[326]_Report of the Acting Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park 1895_, p. 824.
[327]These stations were located at Norris, Riverside, Fountain, Upper Geyser Basin, Thumb, Snake River, Lake Sylvan Pass, Soda Butte, Tower Falls, Fort Yellowstone, and Gardiner.
[328]There are more than thirty of these journals in the Park Library at Mammoth, Wyoming.
[331]John Muir, _op. cit._, April, 1898, p. 510.
[332]Charles D. Warner, "Yellowstone National Park," _Harper's_, XCIV (January, 1897), 94.
[334]Eugene T. Allen and Arthur L. Day, _Hot Springs of the Yellowstone National Park_ (Washington, D. C.: Carnegie Institution, 1935). Although Dr. Day was the director, the work was regarded as the valedictory of Dr. Allen.
[335]Theodore Roosevelt, "A National Park Service," _Outlook_, C (Feb. 3, 1912).
[336]S. T. Mather's "Report of The Director of The National Park Service," _Report of the Department of the Interior 1918_, pp. 842-3.
[337]_Reports of the Secretary of the Interior 1918_, pp. 842-3.
An interesting experiment, contrary to this principle, was an attempt in 1906 to raise twelve Sequoia _gigantea_ trees near the arch at Gardiner entrance. All of the trees died.
[338]James Bryce, "National Parks the Need of the Future," _The Outlook_, CII (December 14, 1912), 811.
[339]_Reports of the Secretary of the Interior 1918_, pp. 813-4.
[341]Ray S. Baker, "A Place of Marvels," _The Century Magazine_, LXVI (August, 1903), 487.
[342]F. A. Boutelle, _Report of the Acting Superintendent 1889_ (Washington, D. C.: Government Printing Office, 1890), p. 148.
[343]_Report of the Secretary of the Interior 1937_, p. 49.
[344]Short terms of service were also held by Dr. Frank E. Thone, 1923, and Alfred H. Povah, 1931.