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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



PRIEST'S PASS PARK 

 These are ideal locations for a camp or for a big community picnic. Many such parks can be found in this popular National Forest 



and they are freely used by the people of the vicinity. 



careful with fire." Although most people do not stop to 

 think of it there is no small penalty attached to violating 

 these rules and if you are not careful your vacation may 

 end in being invited before some court by a watchful 

 ranger. This is true of all National Forests and of course 

 applies to the Helena. 



Many canyons of this Forest offer spectacular walls to 

 view. The whole district is in a limestone area and wind 

 and water have done master carving on these walls. 

 Minaretted spires stand from the side and pinnacles with 

 softest of colorings rise from abutments which reach 



into the valley floors, so that these spires and walls take 

 on the splendor of the facades and towers of some magic 

 city of the Orient. 



Beaver Canyon is a splendid example of this nature 

 carving of limestone cliffs. It is located in the Big Belt 

 Mountains in the region of the Gate of the Mountains. 

 A good road leads into this picturesque cleft in the hills 

 and it is one of the favorite places where the people from 

 Helena and other Montana towns go for a picnic on pleas- 

 ant summer days. 



There is a local appreciation of these play areas in 



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