Excerpt from Planning and Civic Comment: Volumes 18 and 19, 1952-1953 Parks are significant to the Nation. Within the State the areas are unique, rare and irreplaceable. The proposal has been made that state parks should be touted as the leaders in the tourist trade. Neither state nor national parks are in the tourist business. Rather, they are responsible for properties that are a great cultural factor essential to the well being of all of us. The quality of development for visitor use should not be adulterated by the introduction of cheap attractions. Such is as out of place as a snack bar for coffee and just inside the church door to attract the late risers, or a badminton court and pin-ball machine in the lobby of the art museum for those who do not like paintings. We are worshippers of the fetish of bigger and better as we anxiously scan our monthly and annual attendance reports. It will be a great day when the annual report for Yellowstone shows a ten percent decline in attendance for some reason other than war. 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.