AAAS:
National Parks Policy of the United States

Resolved, That the American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes the national parks as the means of preserving unique representations of the primitive and majestic in nature and wishes to record its protest against additions to the National Park System, or change in policy, which may tend to lessen, in fact or in public estimation, their present high value as natural museums, their complete conservation from industrial uses, and their effectiveness as a national educational institution.

[Adopted by the AAAS Council, January 1, 1926.]