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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: /articles/article/for_the_benefit_and_enjoyment_of_the_people14079/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: The Beacon recently ran Christian Science Monitor writer Todd Wilkinson’s timely story on President Obama’s new National Park Service (NPS) director, Jonathan Jarvis. Jarvis has a tough row to hoe, leading an agency that can’t even agree on why it exists. The debate centers on a philosophical question: Are parks for people, or do parks exist for their own sake? Some take guidance from the law that established Yellowstone in 1872, as inscribed on the Roosevelt Arch at Gardiner: “For the Benefit and Enjoyment of the People.”