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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A DANDY PLACE FOR A MEAL WHEN "ON THE TRAIL" 



Substantial tables or benches take no more material and little more effort to 

 build than do the ramshackle kind. The next user will be benefitted too. 



Stood open to all eyes. Earl still dreamed and busied 

 himself with getting some of his outfit together for the 

 several miles that we still had to do with the packs on 

 our backs. This done he sauntered over to the table that 

 was side-board, work table, dining table and drying rack 

 for washed dishes. 



Then he saw what I had noted when first I looked in- 

 side the cabin. The breakfast dishes were not washed 

 and the entire table was inexcusably dirty. 



Ranger Earl exploded. There was a good lot he had to 

 say about the situation and the men who had caused it 

 that would not be good to print. There was no question 

 what he thought of the act. He condemned it and it's 

 perpetrators without equivocation. 



In his milder moments he did say : "That settles it 1 

 Those fellows have lost a lot in .my estimation. I had 

 come to like both of them and thought they were real 

 outdoor men, but this changes my mind. I'll never go 

 on a trip with either again and I hope I never meet them 

 in town. That grizzly hunt is off, too, and I hope they 

 never come back to my district." And that was saying 

 a g^eat deal for those men had been good companions 

 for several days and meetings in the city had been 

 planned for the winter season and the first tracking snow 

 was to have been the signal for the hunt of a cattle-kill- 

 ing grizzly that had roamed the sides of the mountains 

 for many seasons. 



The sad part of the whole incident is the fact that 

 these men probably did not know that they were insult- 

 ing the man of the hills when they left the cabin and 

 dishes dirty. To them it was but a passing incident, to 

 him it was as though he had been slapped in the face. 



This case is not isolated. Time after time the travel- 

 ing public as represented in the vacationists and tourists, 

 well mannered enough in their own homes iatid in the 



houses of friends, have heaped injury and al- 

 most insult on the heads of people who are 

 ready to be their best friends if given any 

 chance. 



Would you enter a friend's house and help 

 yourself to the use of his clothing and furni- 

 ture or invite yourself to board there without 

 being asked? It would have to be a very 

 dear friend indeed who would overlook such 

 a breach of manners. Yet the tourist travel- 

 ing in a car invites himself into the front yard 

 of some ranch, nonchalantly pitches his tent 

 and helps himself to the wood the rancher 

 has cut and piled for fuel during a hard win- 

 ter. Would you have a kindly feeling for 

 someone who would come into your door- 

 yard and cut up your fence posts for fuel to 

 build a campfire? Some people do this very 

 thing on farms near where they camp a night 

 while touring and then express the greatest 

 amazement because the farmer-owner gets 

 angry. Would you invite J. Baxter Trade- 

 sley and his family over into a friend's gar- 

 den to eat watermelon and then toss the rinds 

 into the neatly graveled paths and flower beds? Travel 

 any road in the West where tourists congregate and it 

 will not take long to find a place where watermelon rinds 

 or other camp refuse clutters up a parking along a road 

 or creates a mess on some otherwise delightful picnic 

 spot. 



In all of the great family of outdoor and forest people 



INSURING THE NEXT VISITOR A PLEASANT PROSPECT 



One of the most common habits of the bad camper is to leave all 

 wrappings around food, old newspapers, etc., on the picnic spot. 



