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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry221916amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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716 AMERICAN FORESTRY and future value to the West, the Department of Agri- culture has been prominently identified. Some of the best highways approaching the Forests have been built by these engineers with funds contributed by states and counties. A new era of economy and efficiency in high- way making is opening all over the West. In the Forests, by reason of more liberal appropria- tion, the work of road and trail making is proceeding apace with that outside the boundaries. The best camp and villa sites are being linked by fine roads. Leading out from these, innumerable trails for the pack outfits and the mountaineers have been built to make ac- cessible the loftier and more impressive view- points. Throughout the forests the trails and roads are plainly marked, telephones are conveni- ently located, springs.
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THE FIRST .\UT0 0.\ THE xNEW BLEWETT PASS HIGHW.A.Y, WASHI.XGTON This splendid roadway constructed by the Forest Service connects with new state and county roads bet%veen Wenatchee and North Yakima and opens to the summer tourist a region of unusual charm and beauty, between two of the noted fruit-growing districts of the State. Blewett Pass in former days had a reputation for bad roads and heavy grades. times has rendered helpful assistance in the building of the summer homes. While tlie regular duties of the ranger are onerous and trying, and the advent of an army of summer vis- itors brings added cares and burdens and no extra pay, the attitude of the forest man is obliging, kindly and helpful. In California the recreational use of the forest has assumed iiroportions calling for the utmost tact and diplomacy on the part of the administrators. In the Angeles Forest thou- sands of people make use of the camp sites. So popular has this form of vacation become that the city of Los Angeles has leased a large tract I if land in this forest, rrected thereon thirty or more cottages, a mess hall, and a concrete bath- iiig pool. Throughout the summer months the city arranges to trans- port and care for parties of pupils and teachers to the number of two hundred at a time. -\ two-weeks' vacation is (irovided for in the for- est and the entire cost is about $7.50 per person, including transportation of more than 200 miles. In the Sierra Na- tional Forest the Normal School of Fresno has leased a tract of land on the shores of Hunting- ton Lake, and a summer In the Pecos National Forest a camp sites, good view- points, gasoline stations, stores, hotels, and prac- tically everything a trav- eller should know are clearly shown on the maps or marked on the trees along the highways. The first thought that comes to you on entering a National Forest is that you are welcome. There is but one " don't " in all the legends you read on signs and maps,—"Don't be careless about fires." The ranger who greets you somewhere in the forest won't ask your pedigree or your politics. You'll look just as good to him whether you are on foot or in a limousine with the latest camp outfit, and you'll be just as wel- come. The forest is a great leveller. An instance of this occurred last summer, when a careless camper with an expensi\e touring outfit and a sagebrusher with a span of burros and a dilapidated wagon were both brought back into the forest and there compelled to clean up their respective camps and also to put out their of the forests, especially in sections where the highway neglected fires. systems from the cities have been completed, has brought In its effort to render the greatest amount of pleasure about a new classification of certain areas. Heretofore to the camper and summer home builder the Forest Service has given thoughtful consideration to many de- tails. The comfort and convenience of the former is aided by furnishing camp stoves built of concrete which, by the way, also lessen the fire risk. The Forest Service has also piped water from distant springs, cleared away brush, surveyed and planted attractive sites, and at all school is held there number of Boy Scouts are given a summer vacation with lessons in forestry by a ranger as an added attraction. In the same forest a camjiing company has set up tent cities in various places of interest and a summer tour with frequent stops is provided. One of these, a trip to Lake Peaks, 12,000 feet elevation, is made in a single day on horseback. The increasing demand for camp facilities in some these areas were regarded as chiefly valuable for the timber upon them, but with the clamor for camp sites the recreational use of these lands far exceeds their value for timber, and henceforth the axe will touch here no giant pine or fir so long as it can hold its head to Heaven. In the Oregon National Forest one Sunday morning last summer there were 400 automobiles parked in and

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