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Show Senator Bennett Predicts County Benefits Under New State Park Law Eight scenic and historic attractions In Garfield County are nearer to possible State Parks status as a result oi a law signed by President Eisenhower this week. The law, sponsored by Sen- , ator Wallace F. Bennett, and cosponsored by other senators and congressmen from Western states, removes the 640 acre limitation on the amount of land which may bo transferred by the Federal govern ment to a state or state agency for recreation purposes. While the act does not go as far as Senator Bennett's original bill, which removed i all limitations on land return- ed to states for recreational purposes, it does increase the limitation to 12,800 acres per year, and removes tho limitation entirely on roadside parks. A number of areas in Gar field County tentatively slated as. future State Parks will be affected by the new law, since "they are now entirely or partly on land owned by the Federal government. In-' eluded among these are Land of the Standing Men, Henry Mountains, Circle Cliffs. Es calinte Petrified Forest, Devils Rock Garden, Sunset Valley, Escalante River and Hole In the Rock, and' Kaiparowlts Plateau i |
