ABSTRACT
BOUNDARY REVISION FOR YELLOWSTONE PARK Quite as much needed as new parks were extensions of existing parks, particularly Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, Rocky Mountain, Crater Lake, and Mount Rainier. Yellowstone needed expansion along three sides: along the west part of the north line to include more of the Gallatin River and Specimen Creek valleys, lower land for winter grazing, and, also important, petrified trees; along the east line, to add high scenic areas mainly, and make the high divide the park boundary; along the southeast boundary to include what was called the Thorofare region, the high headwaters of the Yellowstone and Snake rivers; and, most important, along the south boundary line, to take in the magnificent Grand Teton Mountains and the Jackson Hole country for winter grazing land. The efforts at revision present a confusion of bills and proposals to change one or more of those boundary lines.
