NATIONAL FORESTS AS RECRE- 

 ATION GROUNDS 



By Prof. W. J. Morrill, 

 Forestry Department, University of Nebraska. 



A SCORE of Svvitzerlands in 

 western America are inviting 

 us to "see America first." 

 The National Forests of the 

 West offer scenery equally as varied 

 and attractive as the Alps, though dif- 

 ferent, a more delightful climate, min- 

 eral and hot springs of as much efficacy 

 as the most celebrated ones abroad, and 

 greater opportunities for sport. 



These Forests are within a country 

 populous with mountains. Tier rises 

 above tier, buttressed with mighty lat- 

 eral spurs, dominated by splendid peaks. 



cut by beautiful, cliff-walled valleys, 

 divided by broad plateaus. Hundreds 

 of towering, snow-clad shafts pierce 

 the azure sky to elevations far exceed- 

 ing the highest mountains of Eastern 

 United States, 



Thousands of mountain streams well 

 stocked with speckled trout rise within 

 these mountain fastnesses, where the 

 Big Horn stands sentinel on command- 

 ing pinacles, and where the mountain 

 lion, wary of man, still takes his toll 

 of deer, as for ages past. The spruce 

 forests even yet hold within their shady 



Camp Martin, Angeles National Forest, Californl\. 

 an ideal spot hu.h in the mountains which is a favorite resort for many californians. 



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