Lost Mine Trail, Big Bend National Park, Texas

by Anonymous

Santa Elena Canyon

Mariscal Canyon
(Photo by 111th Photo Sec., Texas Nat’l Guard)

Big Bend is one of the newest of the great, scenic National Parks, having been established June 12, 1944. A unit of the National Park System, it is administered by the National Park Service, U. S. Department of the Interior.

MISSION 66

MISSION 66 is a 10 year development program, now in progress, to enable the National Park Service to help you enjoy and understand the Parks and Monuments, and at the same time, preserve their scenic and scientific values for your children and for future generations.

CONSERVATION—YOU CAN HELP

If you are interested in the work of the National Park Service and in the cause of conservation in general, you can give active expression of this interest, and lend support by alining yourself with one of the numerous conservation organizations which act as spokesmen for those who wish our scenic heritage to be kept unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.

This booklet is published in cooperation with the
National Park Service by the

SOUTHWESTERN MONUMENTS ASSOCIATION
Box 1562-P, Gila Pueblo, Globe, Arizona