Excerpt from National Monuments as Wild-Life Sanctuaries: Address Delivered at the National Parks Conference at Washington, D. C., January 4, 1917 It is apparent also that there are ample means of protecting the natural monuments which have been nationalized by proclamation and placed under the care of the Government, and that on some Of the reservations are some highly interesting species which deserve the protection which can only be afforded by a wild-life sanctuary. Some kinds of big game occur in even larger numbers than in some Of the national parks. Thus in the case of elk, the Mount Olympus National Monument during the breeding season harbors most Of the Olympic elk in existence. Nowhere else, not even in the Mount Rainier Park in the same State, is any considerable herd of these elk to be found. The number at the present time, probably about is larger than that of any herd -f elk outside Of the Yellowstone Park region. 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.