Excerpt from Improvement and Management of National Parks: Letter From the Secretary of the Treasury, Transmitting Copy of a Communication From the Secretary of the Interior Relating to the Administration of the Appropriations for the Improvement and Management of National Parks It was not practicable to include this in the regular estimates of the department for 1917, as a final determination upon the matters herein presented was only recently concluded. There are hereto appended excerpts from my annual report of the operations of this department for 1915, giving detailed information in relation to the various national parks. I have to request that these papers be forwarded to Congress for early consideration. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.