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of people will be coming to this State annually for recreation, and the 

 millions then in the State will make their demands for recreation. 

 The use of the forest for this purpose will be vast indeed, not only 

 for summer recreation, but winter sports also will have been highly 

 developed. 



At that time the Federal Government will still own the greater 

 portion of the forest lands, and will have combined the National 

 Forest and the National Park systems into one. The National Forests 

 will be serving the purpose of the National Parks in all of the places 

 where such use is desirable. On the other hand, the National Parks, 

 in such of their parts as are less useful for recreation purposes, will 

 be serving other forest uses. The State will own large forests, mainly 

 in the redwood region and Coast Ranges. The counties and munici- 

 palities will not be without their publicly owned forests. Private 

 ownership, while greatly decreased, will not entirely have ceased to 

 exist, but the private owner will then be entirely satisfied with an 

 interest rate of 3 per cent on his investment in splendidly managed 

 forest land. 



The three main purposes for bringing the forests to this condi- 

 tion will have brought about their great ideal — the highest service to 

 humanity. Civilization will have reached its highest development in 

 California when our great-grandchildren have taken our places, and 

 the forests will play no unimportant part. 



At the present time California has a population of 3 million people. 

 Our people are progressive; they have been advancin'g with rapid 

 strides during the past six years; they are willing to go much farther 

 under the right sort of leadership. High ideals must be placed before 

 them, and they must be helped over the rough places by hard thinking 

 and persevering action on the road to these ideals. The State is now 

 quite highly developed agriculturally in some places, as, for instance, 

 in the citrus country around Riverside and Redlands. The State 

 government is unusually advanced ; we are ahead of other States in 

 highway building. In regard to forestry, however, while the people 

 are interested and friendly, they are not fully awake to the needs ; 

 they are unorganized; and there is no definite policy upon which to 

 crystallize sentiment and to base action. The National Forests are 

 headed in the right direction ; they have real ideals and advancement 

 is being made toward their realization, for there is a unity of purpose 

 among those directing the National Forests. In the National Forest 



