FOREST HOMES 



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American Museum of Natural History, 

 Century Club, New York Zoological 

 Society, National Sculpture Society, 

 New York Yacht Club, Piping Rock 

 Club, Seawanahka-Corinthian Yacht 

 Club, Wild Life Protective Fund; Mem- 

 ber Committee on Admissions, Univer- 

 sity Club, New York; Chairman, Physi- 

 cal Department Committee, Interna- 

 tional Y. M. C. A.; Chairman, Central 

 Branch (Brooklyn) Y. M. C. A.; 

 Treasurer, Boy Scouts of America; 

 President, Brooklyn Council, Boy Scouts 

 of America; Member, Public Recreation 

 Commission, City of New York; Vice- 

 President, Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

 and Sciences; Member, National Society 

 for the Promotion of Industrial Educa- 

 tion, American Association for Labor 

 Legislation, National Conservation As- 



sociation, National Association of Audu- 

 bon Societies, Society of Sanitary and 

 Moral Prophylaxis; Treasurer, Pratt 

 Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



Commissioner Pratt has announced 

 the appointments of Llewellyn Legge as 

 Chief Protector in charge of the Division 

 of Fish and Game, Clifford R. Pettis as 

 Superintendent of Forests, William C. 

 Howard as Assistant Superintendent of 

 Forests, and A. S. Houghton, of New 

 York, City as Secretary to the Commis- 

 sion. 



Commissioner Pratt at the same time 

 announced the appointment of eighty- 

 six forest and district rangers and 

 mountain watchman. Marshall Mc- 

 Lean of New York has been designated 

 by the Attorney General as counsel for 

 the Commission. 



FOREST HOMES 



SECRETARY of Agriculture Hous- 

 ton has promulgated a set of 

 regulations for administering the 

 new law which provides that 

 National Forest land may be leased for 

 summer home sites and other recrea- 

 tional purposes in tracts of 5 acres or 

 less for periods not to exceed thirty 

 years. This law supplements the re- 

 vocable permit system under which 

 recreational use of the forests already 

 had developed considerably. Many 

 users have been unwilling to make 

 substantial improvements because of 

 the uncertainty of tenure involved in 

 the old form of permit, which, however, 

 is still expected to meet the requirements 

 of persons who are not likely to occupy 

 the land for more than a few years, or 

 to make elaborate improvements. 



The primary object of the "term 

 permits," as the leases are called, is not 

 to obtain revenue but to promote the 

 use of National Forest land for recrea- 

 tional purposes, say the regulations. 

 At the same time, since permittees 

 receive special benefits, it is regarded as 

 only fair that they should reimburse 

 the government for the expenditure 

 incurred in administering the Forests. 



The rates range from $5 a year up, in 

 accordance with the location of the 

 land, the demand for it, and the use to 

 which it will be put. The District 

 Foresters are authorized to grant per- 

 mits to applicants who intend to make 

 improvements costing less than $1,000 

 and to use the land for a period not 

 longer than fifteen years. ' All other 

 pennits will be approved by the Forester 

 at Washington. 



Applications must be filed with the 

 Supervisor of the forest affected, desig- 

 nating the location of the land desired, 

 the use to be made of it, and the 

 approximate cost of contemplated im- 

 provements. Examination and survey 

 of the land will be made by the Forest 

 Service free of charge. An application 

 for a hotel or summer resort site must 

 be accompanied by plans and specifica- 

 tions of proposed structures and a 

 statement as to their probable cost. 

 The law stipulates 5 acres as the 

 maximum, and it is believed that much 

 less than this will suffice for most 

 persons, but permittees will not be 

 placed close together except when it is 

 necessitated by heavy demand for 

 land in a particular locality. 



