SEQUOIA
Rules and Regulations
1920
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MAPS.

The following maps may be obtained from the Director of the United States Geological Survey, Washington, D. C., at the prices given, postage prepaid. Remittances should be made by money order or in cash:

The Sequoia and General Grant National Parks are mapped on the Tehipite and Kaweah quadrangles, scale 2 miles to the inch. Price, 10 cents each.1


1May not be purchased also by personal application at the office of the superintendent of the park, but that office can not fill mail orders.

The area north and east of the parks included in the proposed Roosevelt National Park is mapped on the Mount Goddard, Bishop, Olancha, and Mount Whitney quadrangles, scale 2 miles to the inch. Price, 10 cents each.

On these quadrangle maps the rinds and trails are printed in black, the streams and lakes in blue, and the relict is indicated by brown contour lines.


LITERATURE.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS.

Government publications on Sequoia and General Grant National Parks may be obtained as indicated below. Separate communications should be addressed to the officers mentioned.

DISTRIBUTED FREE BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE.

The three following publications may be obtained free by written request addressed to the Director of the National Park Service, Washington, D. C., or by personal application to the office of the superintendent of the park:

Glimpses of Our National Parks. 48 pages.

Contains descriptions of the most important features of the principal national parks.

Automobile road map of Sequoia and General Grant National Parks.

Shows the park road system, trail system, camps, garages, superintendent's office, routes to the parks, etc. Also contains suggestions to motorists. Printed in two colors.

Map of National Parks and Monuments.

Shows location of all of the national parks and monuments, administered by the National Park Service, and all railroad routes to the reservations.

SOLD BY THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS.

The following publications may he obtained from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C., at the prices given, postage prepaid. Remittances should be made by money order or in cash:

The National Parks Portfolio. By Robert Sterling Yard. 260 pages, including 270 illustrations. Pamphlet edition, loose in flexible cover, 35 cents; book edition, containing same material securely bound in cloth, 55 cents.

Contains nine sections, each descriptive of a national park lend one larger section devoted to other parks and monuments.

"The Secret of the Big Trees," by Ellsworth Huntington, 24 pp., including 14 illustrations 5 cents.

Contains an account of the climatic changes indicated by the growth rings and compares the climatic conditions in California with those of Asia.

Forests of Yosemite. Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks, by C. L. Hill. 1916. 40 pages, including 23 illustrations. 20 cents.

Contains descriptions of the forest cover and of the principal species.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.

ALLEN, Eva F. A guide to the national parks of America. 1918. 338 pages.

BRYCE, JAMES. University and historical addresses. 1913. 433 pp.

"National Parks, the need of the future," pp. 389-406.

CLARK, GALEN. "The big trees of California." 1907. 104 pp.

JEPSON, W. L. "The silva of California." Memoirs of the University of California. Vol. 2, 1910. 480 pp. Illustrated.

______. "The trees of California." 1909. 228 pp. Illustrated.

MUIR, JOHN. Our national parks. 1909. 382 pp. Illustrated.

Sequoia and General Grant National Parks on pp. 268-330.

MILLS, ENOS A. Your National Parks. 532 pages. Illustrated. Price, $2.50. Houghton Mifflin Co., 1917.

Sequoia and General Grant National Parks on pp. 99-115; 455-459.

YARD, ROBERT STERLING. The Top of the Continent 1917. pp. 244.

Sequoia National Park, on pp. 188-212.

_____. The Book of the National Parks. 420 pp. Scribners, 1919. Price, $3.

Sequoia and General Grant National Parks on pp. 69-92.


OTHER NATIONAL PARKS.

Rules and regulations similar to this for other national parks listed below may be obtained free of charge by writing to the Director of the National Park Service, Washington, D. C.:

Yosemite National Park.
Mount Rainier National Park.
Crater Lake National Park.
Mesa Verde National Park.
Yellowstone National Park.
The Hot Springs of Arkansas.
Glacier National Park.
Rocky Mountain National Park.
Wind Cave National Park.
Grand Canyon National Park.


NATIONAL MONUMENTS.

The following publication relating to the national monuments may be obtained free of charge by writing to the Director of the National Park Service, Washington, D. C.:

Casa Grande National Monument


PICNIC PARTY AMONG THE BIG TREES.
Photograph by J. E. Roberts

MAIN GALLERY OF CRYSTAL CAVE.
Phograph by Lindley Eddy.

THE GENERAL SHERMAN TREE.
The biggest and oldest living thing in the world.




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