484 A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



In most cases State parks will be under less stable control and more 

 subject to political influences than Federal reservations. They will 

 not, therefore, be so well adapted for the permanent retention of 

 primeval areas, although the Adirondacks and California belie this 

 generalization. They will usually be much smaller than Federal 

 parks and forests, and consequently will seldom contain possible 

 wilderness areas, although the Adirondacks again make a notable 

 exception. Their chief value will be in supplying roadside, camp 

 ground, residence, and outing areas for citizens of the States in which 

 they lie. 



COUNTY AND MUNICIPAL PARKS 



In general the parks controlled by the minor civil divisions are 

 meant for the ordinary outings of the local citizens. They will lack 

 the sensational features which attract people from distant parts, but 

 will make up for their constricted appeal by the intensive use to which 

 they are put by those who live near them. They will be even more 

 important than State forests for camp site, residence, and outing 

 areas. Each municipality and county will have the responsibility of 

 planning for the forest recreation of its own citizens, and the amount 

 of land which each will have to supply will be in inverse ratio to the 

 amount of Federal and State land in the vicinity. 



PRIVATE LANDS 



Private holdings are usually adapted only to those types of recrea- 

 tional land capable of yielding a profit. These are in general residence 

 and camp-site areas. In competition with free or very cheap public 

 camp grounds it is doubtful that many private camp grounds could 

 pay, and certainly the various governments would not be justified in 

 giving up this social service to their citizens simply to permit private 

 operators to make a profit in this field. There are several privately 

 owned wilderness areas in Maine and one in Georgia, but their 

 preservation under this form of control is very perilous. One experi- 

 ment is being broached in Maine for developing an outing area on 

 private lands, the proceeds to come from toll roads, summer home 

 sites, and concessionaires. The few large private estates and game 

 reserves which still remain in the United States might also be classified 

 as outing areas. 



SUMMARY 



In summary, the types of recreational area for which each of the 

 principal forms of forest administration is especially adapted are : 



National parks: Superlative, primeval, wilderness. 



National monuments : Primeval. 



National forests: Superlative, primeval, wilderness, roadside, 

 camp site, residence, outing. 



State parks and forests: Roadside, camp site, residence, outing. 



County and municipal parks : Camp site, residence, outing. 



Private: Camp site, residence. 



FORESTRY AND RECREATION 



Without the practice of forestry on the lands devoted to timber 

 production, the best values of forest recreation would be doomed. 

 For no matter how solemnly we may set aside in perpetuity lands on 



