the National Forests 



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A great many persons prefer to do their summer camping 

 in comfortable cabins of their own building. These they like 



to own. Under special legislation designed 

 Permanent to meet this need the Forest Service now 



^ leases small tracts (one-fourth acre to i acre) 



to such persons on terms which make it feasible for them to build 

 and furnish their own camp houses. Naturally* these camps 

 are gregarious, both because most campers like a little society, 

 even in the woods, and because the attractions of pleasant 

 streams or lakes appeal to many persons alike. 



The obvious tendency therefore is to develop this important 

 type of forest recreation in the form of small summer colonies, 

 usually upon streams or lakes. Several hundred such centers 

 have already been established. These are pretty well dis- 

 tributed over the entire National Forest domain. The most 

 intensively developed are those in the Angeles Forest north of 



A summer camp in the Shasta National Forest 



