Rules and RegulationsU.S. Government Printing Office, 1925 - Lassen Volcanic National Park (Calif.) |
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1890 Middle eastern 39 Stat active volcano ancient crater rim animals approved August 9 base of Lassen blast Boiling Lake Brokeoff Mountain Bumpass Butte camp canic activity Chaos Crags Cinder Cone Crater Lake dacite Devils Kitchen Director edge effusive explosive eruptions forest form a lid fornia fumaroles Glacier Grand Canyon GRANT NATIONAL PARK Hat Creek Hawaii head of Mill Honey Lake hot springs Lake Tahoe Lassen Peak Lassen Volcanic National lava flows lava lid Lost Creek magma Middle eastern Cali mile in diameter MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARKS mud pot NATIONAL MONUMENT National Park Service old crater park lands parks and monuments prohibited Prospect Peak ranger Red Bluff ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL rugged lava RULES AND REGULATIONS SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK Shasta slope of Lassen Snag Lake solfataras Southwestern square miles summit of Lassen superintendent SUSANVILLE trees trout fishing Truckee volcanic conduit Volcanic National Park YELLOWSTONE AND ROCKY ZION NATIONAL PARK
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Page 12 - Stock may be taken over the park lands to patented private lands with the written permission and under the supervision of the superintendent, but such permission and supervision are not required when access to such private lands is had wholly over roads or lands not owned or controlled by the United States. 12. Grazing. — The running at large, herding, or grazing...
Page 13 - ... of not more than $500 or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both, and be adjudged to pay all costs of the proceedings.
Page 10 - ... or otherwise; or to throw any substance into the springs or geyser vents; or to injure or disturb, in any manner, or to carry off any of the mineral deposits, specimens, natural curiosities, or wonders within the park. 2. It is forbidden to ride or drive upon any of the geyser or hotspring formations, or to turn stock loose to graze in their vicinity.
Page 1 - Prospect Peak, 8,342 feet high, and Harkness Peak, 8,039 feet. Then there are smaller volcanic peaks and fantastic lava fields, both ancient and modern, fumaroles, hot springs, and mud volcanoes, as well as boiling lakes and other interesting phenomena of a volcanic region. The cones, which are easily climbed and studied, have remained nearly perfect. The west front of the park exhibits a magnificent sky line, culminating on the north in pink-toned lava crags which rise to a height of over 8,500...
Page 12 - Service, are prohibited from hiring their horses, trappings, or vehicles to tourists or visitors in the paries.
Page 3 - At night l flashes of light from the mountain summit, flying rocketlike bodies and cloud glows over the crater reflecting the light from incandescent lavas below were seen by many observers from various points of view and appear to indicate that much of the material erupted was sufficiently hot to be luminous.
Page 2 - For a period of about 200 years Lassen Peak was quiescent, then in the spring of 1914 started a series of comparatively small eruptions. Since the close of its most vigorous activity in 1915, it has remained relatively quiet, although many hot springs and other minor phenomena are proof of its internal hent, and from time to time the volcano emits quantities of steam.
Page 4 - Meadows were buried beneath fine debris and large boulders broken off from the edge of the lava lid far above. Trees 3 feet in diameter were broken off or uprooted and the country scoured as by a mighty sand blast. The fine green leaves of the pine trees left standing along the borders of the blast were killed by the heat and turned brown. Locally, on favorable slopes, the heat was so great that the green leaves were charred; not only those of the pine but also those of the manzanita, several acres...
Page 3 - In the beginning the new crater was confined to the loose material filling the old crater, but later it reached the solid rock of the old crater rim, and finally after more than 150 eruptions it attained near the end of March, 1915, a size of about 700 to 1,000 feet.