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Show 19 area. By law, they could have filed claims on the land to log the thick stands of timber, or tovhunt and trap and mine. Or they could have claimed it and charged people a fee to see the spectacular wonders. One man in the party, a territorial judge named Cornelius Hedges, suggested that such extraordinary land should not belong to individuals but to all the American people. The others came to agree viith his opinion. On March 1, 1872, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a bill creating Yellowstone National Park "as a public park or pleasuring ground for the benefit and enjoyment of the people," the first national park in the world, By the 1970's the people viere enjoying it abundantly, so much that Janey had to start doing her ranger viork the moment she arrived. Her new position vias as Sub-District Ranger; she had eight men viorking under her. That first day, while one of the rangers took her riding in a Park Service car to show her the area, a call came on the car radios fl little girl had wandered away from her family in the picnic grounds, and was lost. Would they please come and find her? As they drove toward the picnic grounds, Janey wondered hovi she could possibly find a lost child when she couldn't even find her own viay around the district. But the ranger who vias with her drove slowly along the road through the trees, calling the little girl's name again and again over the car's loud speaker. It viorked. The child walked out of the vioods to the car. The parents viere tearfully grateful, and Janey vias relieved. |