200 THE FOREST SERVICE AND THE NATIONAL FORESTS 



survey, forest management investigations to improve the growing con- 

 dition of the forests, studies to eliminate or reduce the fire hazard, 

 improve the growing and utilization conditions in the naval stores 

 industries of the South, erosion and stream flow investigations. A very 

 comprehensive and effective laboratory known as the Forest Products 

 Laboratory is maintained at Madison, Wisconsin, which is doing ex- 

 cellent work in effecting more efficient utilization of our forest products 

 and in determining new and better uses of wood. Range investiga- 



FIG. 107. Swimming pool, Camp Kent (Lynchburg Y.M.C.A. Camp), George 



Washington National Forest, Virginia. Our forests are being used more and 



more for recreational purposes. 



tions are also conducted at several experiment stations, chiefly in the 

 West, at the Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station at 

 Ogden, Utah, and elsewhere. 



Effective research work was carried on in the Sierra Madre Moun- 

 tains near Los Angeles, in connection with a most unusual and serious 

 flood in southern California. This disastrous flood and forest fire 

 caused the loss of 34 lives and did millions of dollars worth of damage 

 to highways, orchards, ranches, and other property along the way. 

 The maximum flood discharge from the burned-over drainage basin 



