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Fauna of the National Parks of the United States CONSPECTUS OF WILD-LIFE PROBLEMS OF EACH PARK TERRITORIAL PARKS Two national parks are instrumental in the conservation of wild life in territories belonging to the United States. Hawaii National Park, located on Hawaii and Maui Islands of the Hawaiian archipelago, regrettably could not be included in the itinerary of the preliminary wild-life survey. The well-known story of decimation of the native fauna of the islands following the introduction of exotic animals from the continents is suggestive of the many wild-life problems to which Hawaii National Park must be heir. A faunal survey to determine what administrative program will be most effective in preserving the wild life of the park in as nearly a primitive state as is humanly possible should be undertaken by the Park Service at the earliest practicable date. Mount McKinley National Park is located in the central region of the Territory of Alaska on the slopes of the Alaska Range. Even though it is second to none in importance of wild life, the great game herds having been the principal motive for its establishment, this park was not visited in the preliminary survey. Aside from inaccessibility, the reason for omission from the itinerary was a previous study, covering a period of three and one-half months, which two of the authors made in the summer of 1926 on an expedition financed by Mr. John E. Thayer, of Lancaster, Mass., and the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California. The perspective obtained on this trip and subsequent reports received from officials of the park are basis for the following discussion. By reason of the urgent need for a complete study of the faunal problems, one field party of wild-life survey will spend the 1932 season in Mount McKinley Park. NEXT> MOUNT McKINLEY PARKS Southwest | Rocky Mountain | Pacific Coast | Eastern | Territorial NEXT> SUGGESTED NATIONAL-PARK POLICY FOR THE VERTEBRATES

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