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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



This Shows the Difficulties of Travel by Forest Officers or Anyone Making a Winter 

 Trip to Jackson, Snake River, Teton National Forest, Wyoming. 



The horse is down as a result of soft roads. 



improvement leagues, and there is every 

 reason, in such cases, for a Supervisor 

 to take an active interest in the organ- 

 ization of such bodies. Through the 

 medium of such, a great deal can be 

 done to elevate the social atmosphere of 

 the community by arranging for simple 

 entertainments, dances, moving picture 

 shows, etc. 



A Supervisor should be posted on 

 such topics as life, fire and accident in- 

 surance, and should not be backward 

 in urging his neighbors to protect them- 

 selves and their property through this 

 medium. He should take an interest 

 in farm credits, part'cularly if he is in a 

 community where agriculture is an im- 

 portant industry. Oftentimes, associa- 

 tions of individuals can secure better 

 prices on the necessities of life than any 

 individual working alone could, and a 

 Supervisor may in many places have a 

 chance to help in the formation and 

 successful operation of a cooperative 

 buyer's association. In the develop- 

 ment of the rual free delivery and the 

 introduction or extension of means of 

 communication, a Forest Supervisor 

 should actively participate. 



Good roads constitute perhaps the 

 most tanglible asset a locality can pos- 

 sess, and every Supervisor should know 

 what a good road is, and should work 



with his neighbors to secure funds from 

 the counties and states, wherever new 

 roads are needed or the improvement of 

 old roads is essential. Officially, a 

 Supervisor in these days must know 

 something about roads, since 10 per 

 cent of the annual receipts from the 

 National Forests is now devoted to co- 

 operative road and bridge projects in 

 the counties in which the Forests are 

 located. With this knowledge the 

 Supervisor should be particularly quali- 

 fied to take the lead in this line of com- 

 munity activity. 



I have touched on a few things which 

 have occurred to me, mainly because I 

 have been fortunate enough to rub up 

 against some of them. Undoubtedly 

 every Supervisor has had the same ex- 

 perience. In fact, I will go farther and 

 say that probably every permanent 

 Forest officer — and there are over 2,000 

 of them — has had the chance to take a 

 concrete interest in many of the lines 

 of community development work, con- 

 cerning which I have spoken, and my 

 suggestions therefore can be taken as 

 applying to them, as well as to merely 

 the Supervisory force. 



We all know that there is a strong ten- 

 dency all over the country to improve the 

 conditions of country life, and I sincerely 

 believe that we ought to do our share 



