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Show : TUBE'S HANDIWORK pacific Coast Parks Show Sfesults of Volcanic Action "!" WNU Features. Volcanoes have been a dominant factor in shaping the !!lhencan landscape, especially m many parts of the West.' ijjfree of the major volcanic exhibits of California, Oregon d Washington have been incorporated into the national me;.rk system. 'ff: It was 40 years ago that Theodore Roosevelt, using the au-'inty au-'inty granted by congress the preceding year, established ', ssen peak and nearby Cinder Cone as national monuments. e y e years later uiese iwu of 6 is of nature were incorporated ' i Lassen Volcanic National park, -Staining 103.269 acres. os, t ewof reatest single distinction of the 1 t:k is the fact that it contains the only recently I active volca- uetti;ational Parks no in the inclio r il United States, for Fi rOUrTrl1 Starting May In a Series 3. 1914. a se- ries of eruptions erup-tions contm- until February, 1921. Most Ictacular in the seven-year-long es were the 1915 eruptions, which e accompanied by extensive iyVs of hot lava. These created "devastated area," which still aks as one of the park's points 4511 principal interest to tourists. he great cone of Lassen peak 's 10.543 leet above sea level. As 8 :he "devastated area," the Cin-J Cin-J Cone, which was last active I ut 100 years ago, and its lmme-Jre lmme-Jre surroundings are almost whol- widevoid of vegetation. 1 nderground fires have been ac-M ac-M in this region for a long time JW they have exerted their power Sfili variety of ways. This is sug-r sug-r ted by Bumpas Hell, a colorful springs area; Boiling Springs ; Red Cinder Cone; Crater S.e, artd the privately owned sul-'UK'r sul-'UK'r wor'cs' wriich lies within the wt ... yj FtT CRATER LAKE National park, ED Southern Oregon, on the crest of p svCascade range, is presented the J" :tacie of a lake of deepest blue he crater of Mount Mazama, an net volcano. Many geologists e concluded that the basin occu-l occu-l by the lake, which has neither or outlet, resulted from col-ffi.e col-ffi.e of the volcanic cone of the an-) an-) Jiit peak. ' ie lake is supplied with water by tJifall and snowfall as well as by lv which is blown into it from Inm. Collapse of the mountain's Imit did not mean the end of its ai;ic activity; Wizard island, a lmetncal cinder cone, was -jrTned later and rises 780 feet above MjJ;ace of the lake. Covering an )persisi of 20 square miles, Crater lake aU. miles across: it has a shore line jot b "-20 miles and the multi-colored 'druci'5 ne craer's rlm rlse 500 to jtutt! D feet above it. The park con-ll con-ll Ill's 100.290 acres, la" ... "IGHEST OF ALL volcanic peaks ""the western United States is W.int Rainier. 14.408 feet in eleva-! eleva-! G, which is the central and domi-heP'i domi-heP'i feature of Mount Rainier Na-'al Na-'al park. Although it has long Mo""i dormant, steam still issues to Mn vents on its summit, and sev-" sev-" tf hot springs are found nearby at """uresquely named Ohanapecosh . " springs. jFroni the lofty central cone pdiatcs the greatest single-peak fj (lacier system in the United ates, with 26 active rivers of p J Ce. On of these, the Emmons, . hich starts from the summit of s JCe and snow fields, is 5 miles y length, the longest glacier gS the United States. Most of em extend far below the tim-i tim-i Tline. QPfSihn Muir, who perhaps did as h as any one person to further spread of the national park idea, ;idered the wildflower fields of OB"' a'n'er e nnest e na ever seen in all his wanderings throughout through-out the mountains of the West. The most extensive and colorful displays dis-plays are found in the mountain "parks" which lie between the long rivers of ice and above the dense forests which clothe the lower elevations eleva-tions of the park. The forests themselves, them-selves, virgin stands of gigantic Douglas fir, western red cedar and western hemlock, are a distinguished distin-guished feature, particularly attractive at-tractive to eastern and midwest-ern midwest-ern visitors. ... ALL THREE of these parks are almost as popular during the winter win-ter as m summer. All of them have very heavy snowfall and all have open slopes that offer the skier every variety of skiing experience, which extends into late spring and even early summer. Roads are kept open in each park to permit winter sports enthusiasts to reach them, although the expense of plowing out the roads after every snowstorm is. rather high. : . IN LASSEN Volcanic National park there are public accommodations accommoda-tions near Manzamta lake, close to the northwest entrance of the park. At Crater lake, similar accommodations accommoda-tions are situated within a short distance of the run. At Mount Rainier Rain-ier they are found at Longmire, about 2,750 feet above sea level; at Paradise valley, 5,557 feet elevation, and at Ohanapecosh hot springs in the southeast corner of the park. Public campgrounds, for which no fee is charged, are to be found at a number of points in each of these parks. As in most of the other national parks, National Park service provides pro-vides staffs of ranger-naturalists whose job it is to help the visitor gain a better understanding of the plant and animal life of the parks and of the geological phenomena found in them. |