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A Study of the Park and Recreation Problem of the United States


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Contents

Foreword

Supplemental Foreword

Introduction

Recreational Habits and Needs

Aspects of Recreational Planning

Present Public Outdoor Recreational Facilities

Administration

Financing

Legislation

A Park and Recreational Land Plan


A Study of the Park and Recreation Problem of the United States
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A Park and Recreational Land Plan for the United States (continued)

NEVADA

ABOUT ONE-THIRD of the people live within a 30-mile radius of Reno and the remainder are well scattered throughout the State. There are only six communities having a population of over 3,000 inhabitants. The out-of-State motorists exceed by several times the resident population.

With the exception of a relatively small area along its rivers, Nevada is desert, mountainous, rocky, and dry. Eighty-eight percent of the land is in public ownership and the remainder is divided about equally between private holdings and the Southern Pacific Railroad.

The United States Forest Service maintains a number of picnic and camp grounds in its six national forests. The National Park Service administers Boulder Dam National Recreational Area and Lehman Caves National Monument. Under State ownership and administration are 32 recreational areas. Reno and Ely provide municipal parks. Privately owned or operated recreational ranches are of major importance and provide extensive facilities for traveling vacationists.

The State should continue to acquire and administer the more important and interesting scenic, historic, archeologic, and geologic sites; develop a coordinate plan in conjunction with the various public and private interests to provide adequate overnight housing and camping accommodations, waysides, and picnic facilities along the transcontinental highways; endeavor to prevent the drying up of Pyramid Lake by refraining from taking too much water for irrigation purposes; and cooperatively work out a program of acquisition and development of public recreation facilities in the Lake Tahoe region.

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FEDERAL

National monuments:
34. Death Valley115,200
53. Lehman Cave640
     Total
115,840

National recreational area:
64. Boulder Dam556,795

National forests:
1. Mono466,012
4. Eldorado400
14. Tahoe16,373
31. Inyo60,576
39. Toiyabe2,152,313
44. Humboldt1,059,865
52. Nevada1,232,623
     Total
14,988,162

National wildlife areas:
19. Anaho Island Bird Refuge247.7
20. Winnemucca Migratory Bird Refuge11,915
21. Charles Sheldon Antelope Refuge34,235
22. Charles Sheldon Antelope Range542,509.2
27. Fallon Wildlife Refuge17,901.2
49. Ruby Lake Migratory Waterfowl Refuge28,045.2
54. Railroad Valley Migratory Bird Refuge135,184.3
59. Desert Game Range2,022,000
63. Boulder Canyon Wildlife Refuge2346,443
     Total
3,138,480.6


STATE

State parks:
56. Cathedral Gorge1,578.7
57. Kershaw Canyon-Ryan240
58. Beaver Dam718.6
61. Valley of Fire State Park-Overton Museum8,756
     Total
11,293.3

Potential State parks:
6. Hudson Hot Springs
10
11. Mineral Hot Springs
25
30. Walker Lake
2,295
45. Mineral Hot Springs
25
47. Ruby Mountain
2,000
48. Ruby Lakes
160
51. Fish Creek Ranch
160
60. Hidden Forest
5,760
62. Virgin Mountain Range
100
68. Las Vegas
640
     Total
11,175

State monuments:
10. Carson City Prison Fossil Beds7
12. Fort Churchill200
     Total
207

Potential State monuments:
3. Hudson Fossil Fields
4,340
5. Genoa, First House
1
7. Petrified Sequoias
320
13. Virginia City
.5
18. Petroglyphs
120
23. Opal Fields
300
25. Star City
640
26. Lovelock Caves
12,800
28. Soda Lake
1,000
29. Petroglyphs—Mountain of Hieroglyphs
5
32. Deposit of Prehistoric Bones
160
33. Petrified Forest
1,000
35. Bullfrog,Ryolite
160
36. Chloride Cliffs
640
37. O'Brien's Petrified Forest
50
38. Northumberland Caves
320
40. Diana's Punch Bowl
50
42. Beowane Hot Springs
25
55. Hot Creek Crater
120
66. Gypsum Cave
1,000
67. Fort Vegas
6
69. Potosi Mines
640
     Total
23,697.5

State waysides:
8. Cave Rock2
9. Clear Creek Picnic Grounds10
16. Geiger Grade Lookout3
17. Court of Antiquity2
     Total
17

Potential State waysides:
41. Stokes Castle
10

State Wildlife areas:
46. Nevada School of Industry Game Refuge600


LOCAL

County parks:
15. Washoe480

Potential County parks:
2. Lyon County Area
16

1 Area under Federal administration June 1938.

2 This acreage included in acreage of Boulder Dam National Recreational Area except for 7,000 acres.

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