Appendix III National Monuments within National Forests 1. Bandelier National Monument, in the Santa Fe Forest, New Mexico; area, 22,075 acres; created to preserve prehistoric aboriginal ruins. 2. Devil's Post Pile, in the Sierra National Forest, California; area, 800 acres; created to reserve lands of scientific interest due to the existence of lava field, etc., and as an illustration of volcanic activities. 3. Gila Cliff Indian Dwellings in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico; area, 160 acres. The Gila Hot Springs Cliff Houses are the best representative of cliff dwellers' remains in that region. 4. Grand Canyon National Monument, in Arizona, made from Kaibab and Tusayan National Forests; area, 806,400 acres. This is the greatest eroded canyon in the United States. 5. Jewel Cave, in the Black Hills Forest in South Dakota; area, 1,280 acres. Natural formation consisting of a cave of great scientific and public interest. 6. Mount Olympus National Monument, in the Olympic National Forest, Washington; area, 299,370 acres. This reserves certain lands containing objects of unusual scientific interest, including numerous glaciers; the region has formed a summer range and breeding ground for the Olympic elk, a peculiar species rapidly decreasing in numbers. 7. Old Kassaan, in the Tongass, Alaska; area, 38 acres; for the preservation of certain aboriginal ruins of the former Haida Indian village, representing a distinctive type of aboriginal American civilization. 8. Oregon Caves, in the Siskiyou Forest, Oregon; area, 480 acres. These are natural caves of unusual scientific interest and importance. 9. Tonto National Monument, in the Tonto Forest, Arizona; Two prehistoric ruins of ancient cliff dwellings area, 640 acres. of ethnologic, scientific, and educational interest. 10. Walnut Canyon, in the Coconino National Forest, Arizona; area, 966 acres. Prehistoric ruins of cliff dwellings of great educational and scientific interest. II. Wheeler National Monument, in the Rio Grande Forest, Colorado; area, 300 acres. Certain volcanic unusual interest as illustrating erratic erosion. formations of By HENRY S. GRAVES Address before the New England Forestry |