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Show Nevada Sets Meet For Proposed National Park Means of speeding establishment establish-ment of a national park in Nevada, Ne-vada, endorsed within the last year by national organizations most influential in the park field, will be the main subject of the first annual meeting of the Great Basin Range National Park Association at the Lehman Caves on Sunday, July 13. The association now has members in 10 states. Discussion of a bill in Congress asking a comprehensive survey of the proposed park, in the Wheeler Peak-Lehman Caves area of White Pine County, and a tentative draft of a bill by Senator Alan Bible to establish the national parks, will be included. in-cluded. Program announced by Darwin Lambert of Ely, the association president, includes a jeep and hiking trip into the high country which , contains the only active glacier in the Great Basin, starting start-ing from Lehman Caves at 8:00 . a.m. The business meeting will be held at 3:30 p.m. at Lehman Creek Campground, followed by a picnic dinner and a showing of 1 the new moving picture, "Great Basin Range Nevada," on the Lehman Caves grounds at 8:00 p.m. Mr. Lambert said the park will , be of much economic value to ! Nevada and Utah, as well, as ! honoring Nevada by preserving forever an outstanding example of typical Great Basin mountain 1 country of national importance both scenicly and scientifically. Special features include amazing amaz-ing variety of flora and fauna, including in-cluding some of the world's largest specimens of the bristle-cone bristle-cone pine, recently found to be the oldest living trees on earth, the active glacier, spectacular rock formations, the caves, glacial gla-cial lakes, mountain streams and majestic Wheeler Peak, elevation 13,063 feet. |
