Petrified Forest NATIONAL MONUMENT ^ Historic Events Petrified DEPARTMENT OF THE 1539 First exploration of the Southwest by INTERIOR Coronado. Forest 1851 Petrified wood first reported in Harold L. I ekes northern Arizona by Lieutenant NATIONAL Sitgreavcs. Secretary MONUMENT 1853 Petrified Forest Monument area visited by Army expedition headed by Lieutenant Whipple. ARIZONA 41 1857 Camel caravan ol Lieutenant Beale *9 crossed area.

1898 First Government investigation of to the area made by Lester F. Ward of 1900 the U. S. Geological Survey. NATIONAL PARK SERVICE SECTION OF PETRIFIED LOG BALANCED ON EDGE OF CLIFF NEWTON B. DRURY, Director 1906 Petrified Forest set aside as a national monument by President Theodore Roosevelt. HE most spectacular display America was discovered. The Petri­ 1906 John Muir discovered, explored, and C 0 j\jr e wjr s named the Blue Forest. of petrified wood known in fied Forest is a convenient base for Tthe world, as well as some of visits into the land of the modern 1911 Agate Bridge supported by stone the most colorful portions of the Indians—the Navajos, Apaches, Page pillars, replaced by present rein- , are included in Zunis, and Hopis. Petrified Logs in the Rain­ torced concrete beam in 1917. Petrified Forest National Monument West from Petrified Forest, by in northeastern Arizona. Unique in short detour on the way to Grand bow Forest .... Cover 1921 its vivid and varied colors, the petri­ Canyon National Park, travelers to Phytosaurs excavated in Blue Forest. fied wood of this area has long at­ may visit Walnut Canyon National History 3 1929 tracted visitors from all parts of the Monument, a colorful area with world. Within the monument are many well-preserved cliff dwellings; 1930 Blue Forest and Newspaper Rock six separate "forests" where giant the lava fields, cinder cones, and ice Geological Features . . 4 included in the monument by Presi­ dent Hoover. logs of agate lie prostrate on the caves of Sunset Crater National ground and where numerous broken Monument; and the interesting Cita­ sections and smaller chips and frag­ Archeology 9 1932 Painted Desert area added to the del and Wupatki Ruins of Wupatki monument by President Hoover. ments form a colorful ground cover. National Monument. A hundred Indians of Northern Ari­ The area is a part of the Painted miles northeast is Canyon de Chelly 1932 Completion and dedication of Puerco Desert of northern Arizona, a region National Monument, an area of zona 11 River Bridge, making area accessible formed of banded rocks of many deep, branching canyons whose pro­ to motorists. hues carved by wind and rain in.to a tecting walls and caves were once Administration . . . .13 landscape fantastic in color and form. the stronghold of prehistoric In­ 1933 Agate House restored and three Here and there are beds of shale con­ dians. In these canyons today Nav­ rooms of Puerco River Ruin exca­ taining perfectly preserved fossil ajos pasture their flocks, build their Interpretive Service . .13 vated. leaves of plants of a remote age. hogans, and weave their rugs. Occasionally the bones of giant rep­ Accommodations and Sup­ 1933 Fossil leaf beds of Blue Forest tiles and amphibians are washed HISTORY to discovered, explored, and described. from their burial place in the rocks. plies 13 1940 Many Indian ruins and petro- We have no knowledge of the glyphs are found, evidence of Indians petrified forests from the early 1940 Painted Desert Inn and Museum who lived in this area long before Spanish explorers. Apparently the Travel Information . . .13 completed. first man to report the "stone trees"

2 Petrified Forest National Monument Petrified Forest National Monument 3 ONE OF THE GIANT PETRIFIED LOGS

was Lieutenant Sitgreaves, an Army of crushing the petrified logs into officer who explored parts of northern abrasives. Alarmed, the citizens of Arizona in 1851, soon after Arizona Arizona through their territorial was acquired by the United States. legislature petitioned Congress to Two years later an Army expedi­ make the area a national park "so tion, under Lieutenant Whipple, that future generations might enjoy visited the present monument area, its beauties, and study one of the camped near the Black Forest, and most curious effects of nature's gave the name "Lithodendron" forces." (stone tree) Wash to the creek which Accordingly, Lester F. Ward, of the drains the Painted Desert. In 1857 United States Geological Survey, was Lieutenant Beale led an exotic cara­ instructed to investigate the area, FOSSIL FERNS FOUND IN SHALE NEAR THE SECOND FOREST van of camels across the area en route and his report was instrumental in to California. causing Congress to pass "An Act The petrified forests remained for the Preservation of American that the mineral substance known to calculations based on the rate of largely unknown, however, until Antiquities." Under authority of as silica was first carried into the disintegration of radium, ended some the starting of the settlement of this law President Theodore Roose­ wood by underground waters and 150 million years ago, northern northern Arizona in 1878, and until velt established Petrified Forest Na­ there deposited to fill all open cracks, Arizona was a flat lowland close to the Atlantic and Pacific, now the tional Monument by proclamation pores, and even the wood cells. the level of the sea. Great rivers, Santa Fe Railroad, was completed on December 8, 1906. Later, the wood tissue of the cell flowing from a surrounding fringe of across northern Arizona in 1883. walls was removed and additional low hills and plains, shifted con­ During the following years the GEOLOGICAL FEATURES silica was deposited in place of it. stantly back and forth spreading existence of the petrified forests was This substitution of mineral for layer upon layer of sand, gravel, and threatened by souvenir hunters, gem Petrified Wood.—Petrified wood is wood was so perfectly done that not muds over this lowland. On the collectors, commercial jewelers, and not wood. These logs once were only was the form and size of each stream banks and flood plains were abrasive manufacturers. Entire logs living trees; now they are mineral log exactly duplicated, but even growing many ferns, giant horsetail were blasted to obtain the quartz reproductions of those trees. The the minute cell structure of the wood rushes (neocalamites), and primitive, and amethyst crystals often found wood is gone but in its place are was often perfectly reproduced. The coniferous trees (cycads). In the within the logs, and much agate was jasper, chalcedony, carnelian, and trees grew, were buried, and were rivers and on the mud flats lived carried away for making jewelry. agate—semiprecious gem stones. petrified during the Triassic geolog­ giant crocodilelike reptiles (phyto- The most serious threat, however, How this substitution of mineral for ical period. saurs), large salamanders (stegoce- came with the erection of a stamp wood took place is still something of The Triassic Landscape.—During phalians), advanced types of reptiles mill near the forests for the purpose a mystery. It is believed, however, the Triassic period, which, according (anomodonts), and primitive lungfish

4 Petrified Forest National Monument Petrified Forest National Monument 5 THE LARGEST ROOT SYSTEM YET DISCOVERED AT PETRIFIED FOREST BADLAND FORMATIONS IN THE THIRD FOREST

(dipnoi). But, where were the trees the same manner as modern trees. or water, choked the streams, posited, impregnating the wood and that later formed the colorful petrified Doubtless most of the trees decayed buried the sand and gravel deposits replacing the wood fiber until the logs? away, but some fell into rivers and and their included logs, and thus pine logs became logs of stone. The Forests.—Most geologists be­ were carried downstream to their built up a new land surface on which The Forests Uncovered.—Today, lieve that the growing forests were final place of burial on the flat low­ the rivers developed new courses, the petrified wood which was formed located upstream, possibly as much lands. In the course of their journey brought in and buried more logs, deep in the earth is on top of the as a hundred miles to the west and downstream, the trees lost their and were in turn covered with more ground. No violent earthquake southwest of the present petrified bark, most of their branches and volcanic ash. forced these logs to the surface—they forests. It is improbable that many roots, and even the wood appar­ The Logs Petrified.—Burial, the are on top of the ground simply be­ of the trees grew within the bound­ ently was partly worn away from the first step in petrifaction, was im­ cause they have been uncovered by aries of the present monument. The outside of the logs. This theory portant because it prevented the total erosion. Blankets of limestone, sand­ trees were similar to modern pines, accounts for the occurrence of the decay of the logs. But, more than stone, and shale, a thousand feet but were more closely related to the petrified logs only in sandstone and burial was required, otherwise the thick or more, have been stripped araucarian pines of South America conglomerate beds of stream origin, logs merely would have turned into away from above the logs by wind and Australia. One species (Arau- for their concentration in certain re­ carbon or coal. The factor that de­ and rain. This erosion was acceler­ carioxylon arizomcum) predominated, stricted areas, and for the pre­ termined that these logs should ated by the gradual uplifting of the but two other species (Schilderia dominantly horizontal position of the petrify was the presence in the ground plateau from sea adamanica and Woodworthia arizonica) logs today. It explains why the trees of mineral waters charged with level to over a mile above the sea. are sometimes found in the petrified as a rule have no bark, branches, or silica. It is believed that the silica Thus exposed to weathering and log jams. No broadleaf trees existed roots and why it is that among the came from the volcanic ash which is erosion, the rocks crumbled, and the during Triassic times. many perfectly preserved leaves of found abundantly in adjacent rock rivers carried the fragments away ferns and cycads there are only rare, There was nothing mysterious in strata. The ash decomposed to form and cut deeper and deeper into the fragmental leaves of the petrified the manner cf growth and death of the colored, banded Painted Desert rocks until at last the petrified logs trees. these trees. They grew from seed­ rocks, but in the process much silica were again exposed. This process is lings, matured, produced seeds, and From time to time distant vol­ was freed, leached out, and carried by no means complete, and through­ died of old age or were killed by dis­ canoes gave forth great clouds of by underground waters into the logs. out northern Arizona today there are ease, insects, fire, wind, or flood in volcanic ash which, carried by winds There, slowly, the silica was de­ doubtless thousands of petrified logs

6 Petrified Forest National Monument Petrified Forest National Monument 7 PETROGLYPH OF A MOUNTAIN LION FOUND IN PETRIFIED FOREST. THIS PETROGLYPH IS NOW NEWSPAPER ROCK ON DISPLAY AT MONUMENT HEADQUARTERS

scattered in the ground, near the Semiprecious Stones.—The petri­ earth shocks and pressure while the is nearly white, but in the Painted surface in some places and as much fied forests constitute a storehouse of logs were still buried and tightly en­ Desert it is stained all shades of red, as three or four thousand feet deep semiprecious gem materials known to closed in the rocks. The forces that orange, maroon, blue, purple, and in others. the lapidary by a variety of names. produced the strain may have been yellow by iron minerals that also The Rainbow Colors.—The colors The wax-like, colorlc quartz is the earth forces that lifted the area had their source in the volcanic ash. of the petrified wood are not the colors known as chalcedony. The colors of from sea level, or the unevenly dis­ Bentonitic beds, in arid or semi- of silica alone. In pure state, silica the clear varieties of quartz deter­ tributed weight of the rocks above arid regions, erode into badlands. or chalcedony is white or gray. The mine their names, auch as carnelian the logs. The original cracks were The bentonite absorbs water like a great variety of red, brown, and for the red and chrysoprase for the small, tight, and inconspicuous. sponge, swells, and disintegrates into yellow colors are usually produced apple-green. The opaque varieties However, as the logs are exposed to a fine mud. As a result, the torren­ by minute quantities of iron oxide colored red, brown, dark green, or weathering, these cracks are soon tial summer rains that fall in northern stain in the silica, and similarly the bluish-gray are called jasper. The opened and extended until tne logs Arizona rapidly cut the banded, black is produced by iron and man­ vari-colored vaiieties are called onyx are separated into sections from one bentonitic beds into sharp, conical ganese oxide pigment. Sometimes if the color bands are straight and to several feet long. hills, turreted ridges, and sharp, the red and black stain followed agate if the bands are curved or con­ The Painted Desert.—Both the interbranching canyons and ravines. cracks in the petrified wood and centric. Moss agate is chalcedony color and the intricate land forms of When dry, the bentonite is hard and diffused unevenly into the silica to that contains mottled or tree-like the Petrified Forest areas and Painted strong and is thus able to preserve form the "picture wood" or moss designs. Desert intrigue the spectator. In these intricate badland forms during agate. From sources outside the monu­ color, these badlands relate back to the long periods between rains. Crystals of Quartz.—Where wood ment private dealers obtain crystals the ancient volcanic experience of Locally, a hard sandstone caprock was present the silica took the form and other forms of quartz to shape the region, and in form to the present may prevent rapid erosion of the and structure of the wocd, but in arid polish into a great variety of desert type of erosion. shales beneath to form an abrupt- open cracks and cavities where there ornaments and jewelry settings. The material from which the bad­ sided, table-topped butte or mesa. was no wood to interfere, the silica Broken Log Sections.—A most con­ lands have been sculptured originally assumed its natural crystalline form— spicuous feature is the manner in was deposited layer upon layer as ARCHEOLOGY a six-sided prism capped with a six- which some of the logs are broken volcanic ash, probably of drab color. Throughout the area ancient ruins, sided pyramid. Many quartz crys­ into more or less even sections as if The decomposition of the ash which petroglyphs, and potsherds are found tals—red, yellow, green, black, sawed into stovewood lengths. This released silica for petrification con­ which indicate that this fascinating white, clear, and amethyst—thus is an entirely natural phenomenon verted the ash into the claylike rock but rather desolate Petrified Forest occur in cavities in the petrified logs. which, it is believed, was started by bentonite. When pure, the bentonite country was occupied by prehistoric

8 Petrified Forest National Monument Petrified Forest National Monument 9 ) AGATE HOUSE IN THE THIRD FOREST

Indians over a period of almost a The prehistory of the Petrified A FORKED PETRIFIED LOG IN THE RAINBOW FOREST thousand years. These peoples lived Forest closely follows that of northern in Petrified Forest from before 500 Arizona as a whole. Three features A. D. until about 1400 A. D. These of Petrified Forest archeology, how­ dates have been established by the ever, are of unusual interest. First, are at Newspaper Rock, and others seminomadic Navajo and Apache finding of various types of pottery the relatively dense population by a may be seen near Rainbow Forest. who appear to have come to the the time span of which is known from farming people of an area now so Petroglyphs can seldom be inter­ Southwest about the time of the tree ring dates established in other desolate. The explanation is prob­ preted and usually have no story to discovery of America, and the Pueblo parts of northern Arizona. ably in the ability of these primitive tell. In many cases they may be the Indians, descendants of the prehis­ The earliest inhabitants lived in people to utilize the small springs clan symbols of passers-by. toric inhabitants of the region. small scattered villages of circular and seeps that emerged from the base The third feature of interest is the The Navajo Indians.—The Navajo pit house or slab house dwellings of the mesas framing the area. evidence of the utilization of petrified Indian Reservation borders the north consisting of shallow excavations Minor climatic changes may have wood for building material, tools, side of the Painted Desert section of lined with stone slabs and covered caused some of these springs to dry and weapons. Arrowheads, ham­ the monument and includes most of with dome-shaped walls and roof of up. The great drought of 1276-99 mers, scrapers, and other objects the area north of Highway 66 be­ poles, brush, and earth. Later, nu­ doubtless caused a sharp decrease in fashioned from agate are often found, tween Gallup, N. Mex., and the merous small settlements of rectangu­ population, but the final abandon­ and near the Rainbow and Third Colorado River. The Navajos are lar masonry rooms were built, and in ment of the area may have been the Forests are several ruins of houses a progressive people who, since they the last phase of occupation these result of Apache raids. which were built of blocks of petri­ were conquered in 1863, have led a small scattered villages were aban­ The second interesting feature is fied wood. One of these, the Agate peaceful, seminomadic mode of life doned in favor of a few comparatively the occurrence of an unusually ex­ House, has been partially restored following their flocks of sheep and large towns such as the one to be seen tensive, well-preserved series of and is easily accessible via the Third goats. Their spirit has never been just back of the Puerco River Ranger petroglyphs around the low, brown Forest Trail. conquered, and they remain today Station. The Puerco River Ruin sandstone cliffs. These include many a proud race, practically independ­ consisted of some 125 small rect­ realistic and geometric designs cut INDIANS OF NORTHERN ent and self-supporting. Their angular rooms arranged in a hollow into rock. The most striking of ARIZONA houses are hogans built of stone, square around a plaza. The pueblo these, perhaps, is a very realistic No modern Indians live within logs, brush, and earth. Sheep rais­ was probably two-storied, and could picture of a heron eating a frog, the boundaries of Petrified Forest ing is the chief industry, and some farming is practiced. Rug weaving have housed over 100 families. It popularly called the "stork." Others National Monument, but several by the women and silversmithing is the only site in the monument oc­ include phallic symbols, birds, ante­ important tribes and pueblos are by the men are the chief crafts. cupied continuously from Basket- lope, snakes, footprints, and intricate located in surrounding areas within The Navajos have many ceremonies, maker III (6th-7th century) to patterns of dots and lines. The a day's journey from the monument. most of which are for the purpose of Pueblo IV times (14th century). best examples and greatest variety Two groups are represented—the

10 Petrified Forest National Monument Petrified Forest National Monument 77 daily, closely follow the traditional ACCOMMODATIONS AND Hopi ways of life. Oraibi, one of SUPPLIES their mesa villages, has been con­ tinuously occupied since about 350 Lodging, meals, gasoline, tourist years before the discovery of Amer­ supplies, and curios may be obtained ica. The Hopis are a peaceful and at the Rainbow Forest Lodge near the hospitable people engaging in farm­ south entrance to the monument as ing, pottery making, basketry, and well as at the Painted Desert Inn on some silversmithing and textile weav­ the Painted Desert Rim Drive. The ing. Their ceremonies are frequent rate for lodging at the Rainbow and are probably the most elaborate Forest Lodge is $1.50 for a house­ now practiced by American Indians. keeping cabin with accommodations The Kachina Dances during the for two. At the Painted Desert spring and summer, and the Snake Inn a few double rooms are available Dance in August are the best known, at $2.50 per day. These rates may the latter being the public per­ change slightly, but the latest rates formance which closes a 9-day approved by the Secretary cf the ceremony held in the secrecy of the Interior are on file at the Super­ Kivas. It is a prayer for rain and a intendent's office. AGATE BRIDGE thanksgiving. A small campground at the R.ain- bow Forest, equipped with tables, ramadas, and water supply is avail­ ADMINISTRATION able for the free use of campers. healing the sick. These ceremonies The Zuni Indians.—Zuni Pueblo in Petrified Forest National Monu­ The nearest towns where cabin, also serve as social gatherings. , about 75 miles east of ment is administered by the National hotel, store, and garage facilities are The Apache Indians.—The Apa­ the Petrified Forest, is, perhaps, the Park Service of the United States available are Holbrook, Ariz., 20 ches and their Navajo relatives came most historic Indian village in the Department of the Interior. A super­ miles west; Gallup, N. Mex., 70 to the Southwest not long before the Southwest. When first visited by the intendent is in immediate charge of miles east; and St. Johns, Ariz., 45 first Spanish explorers. After ob­ Spaniards under Coronado in 1539, the area and his headquarters are miles southeast. taining horses, the Apaches became the Zunis were living in seven towns, in the Rainbow Forest. The post- the terror of the Southwest, raiding the famous Seven Cities of Cibola. office address for the monument is TRAVEL INFORMATION other Indians and molesting Spanish The modern pueblo, established in Holbrook, Ariz. and American settlements and trav­ 1695, is on the site of one of the Excellent paved approach roads elers. Since the surrender of their original seven. Today the Zunis INTERPRETIVE SERVICE make Petrified Forest National Mon­ last great chief, Geronimo, in 1886, practice farming, stock raising, and ument easily accessible by car. they have lived quietly on their make much pottery, silver jewelry, All visitors are invited to see the U. S. Highway 66, crossing the area reservations in western New Mexico and other objects for sale. In tribal Rainbow Forest Museum. Here near the Painted Desert, is the and east-central Arizona. The larg­ organization, customs, and religion, are displayed many outstanding ex­ approach from the east. Travelers est of these reservations is the White the Zunis are similar to the Hopis. amples of polished petrified wood, from the southeast, south, and west River Reservation in the mountain They have many ceremonies which, quartz, and amethyst, as well as a enter the monument from U. S. country about a hundred miles south like those of the other Pueblo Indians, diorama, fossils, minerals, charts, etc., Highway 260. The monument high­ of Petrified Forest. The principal are chiefly supplications for rain and explaining the formation of the way connects these two main arteries occupations of the Apaches are stock good crops. petrified forests and badlands. Dur­ of travel and leads through the more raising, farming, and lumbering. The Hopi Indians.—The Hopis, oc­ ing the summer months a short talk interesting parts of the monument. They once wove excellent baskets, cupying several mesa villages in the is given each hour in this museum, West-bound travelers on Highway 66 but have, in recent years, largely center of the Navajo Reservation, and, as circumstances permit, guided may turn south from the Painted discontinued this craft. They wor­ are among the descendants of the tours through the Rainbow Forest Desert, travel through the monu­ ship numerous individual and per­ prehistoric Pueblo Indians of north­ are conducted by ranger-naturalists. ment to Highway 260 and rejoin sonal gods, and formerly held many eastern Arizona. Of all the modern Other exhibits may be seen at the Highway 66 at Holbrook, adding ceremonies. Today the Devil Dance Indians, the Hopis are least changed Puerco R.iver Ranger Station and at only 16 miles to their journey. is the most spectacular and best by contact with the white man's the Painted Desert Museum. All of East-bound travelers on highway 66 known. civilization. The old people, espe- these services are free of charge. may take Highway 260 at Holbrook,

12 Petrified Forest National Monument Petrified Forest National Monument 13 PAINTED DESERT INN

pass through the Petrified Forest and Entrance Pees.—Permits, good for rejoin Highway 66 at the Painted the calendar year, are issued at the Desert, adding only 16 miles to their entrance stations. Fees are 50fl per trip. car or motorcycle, and 50p for a house trailer.

East-bound travelers on highway 260 should take Highway 66 at Hol- brook to the Painted Desert, thence Trails—The monument highway travel south through the Petrified passes close to most of the important Forest to Highway 260. The added scenic areas, but all visitors are en­ distance is 26 miles. couraged to follow some of the short foot trails that lead into the forests in order to inspect the petrified wood. West-bound travelers on highway It is necessary to see the petrified 260 may go through the monument wood at close range in order to appre­ and continue west from the Painted ciate fully the beauty of the colors. Desert with an increase of only 26 These short trails start at conveni­ miles in the total trip. ently located parking areas and lead through the Rainbow Forest, the Second, Third, and Blue Forests, and Painted Desert Rim Drive branches to the Agate Bridge, Newspaper north from Highway 66, circles the Rock, and the Puerco River Indian rim of the Painted Desert, and re­ Ruins. joins Highway 66, adding but 2'/, miles to the distance traveled. Railroad Tunnel.—The Sante Fe Closed at Night.—The monument Railroad passes through the monu­ highway is open from 7 a. m. to ment. Travelers by rail may obtain 7:30 p. m. in summer, and from 7:30 privately operated cars in Gallup, a. m. to 5:30 p. m. in winter, the N. Mex., and Holbrook and Wins- schedule more or less following day­ low, Ariz., for tours through the light hours. monument.

u Petrified Forest National Monument Petrified Forest National Monument 15 RULES AND REGULATIONS

The following summary of regula­ Camping.—Camp or picnic only at tions is intended as a guide for all designated areas. monument visitors. The complete Firearms.—All use of firearms is regulations may be seen at the Super­ prohibited. intendent's office or at ranger stations. Wildlife.—The molestation of any wild animal, the picking of wild- Preservation of Natural Features.— flowers, and the collection of geo­ IT IS UNLAWFUL TO INJURE, DE­ logical specimens are prohibited. STROY, OR REMOVE SPECIMENS Cats, Dogs, Domestic Animals.— OF PETRIFIED WOOD OF ANY SIZE All domestic animals must be caged WHATSOEVER FOUND WITHIN THE or kept on a leash at all times. Dogs MONUMENT BOUNDARY OR TO are not permitted in public buildings. DEFACE, INJURE, DESTROY, DIS­ Automobiles.—An annual fee of 50 TURB, OR MARK ANY RUINS, PIC­ cents is charged each automobile, TURES, PETROGLYPHS OR OTHER house trailer, and motorcycle enter­ ing the monument. The speed limit WORKS OF PRIMITIVE OR PRE­ is 35 miles per hour. Drive with HISTORIC MAN, GOVERNMENT caution and heed all traffic signs. PROPERTY, OR NATURAL FORMA­ It should be remembered that the TIONS, IN ANY MANNER. VIO­ driver's courtesy toward others is the LATORS ARE LIABLE TO FINE UP greatest factor in safety. TO $500, AND IMPRISONMENT UP Hours of Travel.—The monument TO 6 MONTHS. highway between the Rainbow Forest and the Painted Desert is closed at At first glance it might seem that night. the regulations pertaining to petri­ fied wood are quite drastic, but it Photographs.—Photographs may be must be remembered that petrified taken freely by amateurs. Profes­ wood is not being formed by nature sional photographers must secure a in this area today. When a piece is permit from the superintendent be­ removed, it is gone forever and can fore taking any pictures. never be replaced. All of the wood Accidents.—Report all accidents to would be gone within a few years if each of the 200,000 yearly visitors the nearest ranger station. took away a few pounds. HELP Lost and Found articles should be PROTECT THIS FOREST FROM VAN­ reported to the nearest ranger DALISM. station.

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