( CNN ) -- It may as well be the 11th Commandment : Leave nature as you found it , the National Park Service says . So imagine the horror of a little girl named Eve -- no , Evie , to be exact -- when she violated the Eden that is Yosemite National Park . Her sin : She took home two sticks . Park Ranger Matt Holly learned of this transgression during a routine day opening hundreds of letters from visitors awed by Yosemite . The handwritten note from Evie read : . `` Dear Park Rangers , . `` I am a Yosemite Junior Ranger . I went to Yosemite recently and accidentally brought home two sticks . I know I 'm not supposed to take things from the park , so I am sending them back . Please put them in nature . `` Thank you , . `` Evie '' Touched by her innocence , Holly taped the two sticks to her letter and temporarily hung it over his desk . It 's been hanging there for almost a year , he said . `` We all loved it , '' the public information officer told CNN this week . `` It was so moving to see how small the sticks were . '' He contacted the family , who are park regulars , and told them of how Evie 's note moved all the park rangers . They are now preparing to reunite the sticks with their home . `` I think we are about ready to return them to where they belong , back in nature , '' Holly said . `` The family comes here often , they know a lot about the park and she kind of knows where she wants them . '' Evie 's letter is now being considered for display in Yosemite 's visitor center or elsewhere , Holly said . The U.S. Department of Interior may already have its caption . On its Twitter account this week , the agency commented about the letter of apology from the junior park ranger , a title given to youths between ages 7 and 13 who complete a program while visiting a national park . It said : . `` Cutest . Story . Ever . '' The unlikely loser of the proposed spending cuts ? National parks . CNN 's Amanda Watts contributed to this report .
Leave nature as you found it , the National Park Service says . But a little girl named Evie brings home two sticks from Yosemite National Park . She feels guilt and returns them in a letter of apology . Park rangers keep her letter and the two sticks posted on a wall for a while .