FOREST RECREATION DEPARTMENT 



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A SHELTER AND FIREPLACE 



This structure will localize the camping on any grounds and 

 by doing that localize the fires built. By placing it in a proper 

 location the building of fires can be readily regulated. 



responsible to the people for loss of property through 

 fire or life through insanitation. They are accessories 

 before the fact when they do not provide for protection 

 in these two fields if able to do so. 



The most outstanding case of protective needs lies in 

 the National Forest camps of the west. The Forest 

 Service has this problem to meet. But they cannot solve 

 it without recognition and provision for these needs by 

 Congress. A modest annual appropriation for recre- 



ational development for the next few years will save 

 many dollars and lives. 



The National Park Service meets the same problem. 

 Here again the need must be recognized and provided 



A LOW-COST FIREPLACE 



This is not only one of tne most serviceable of all camp improve- 

 ments, but it saves its cost in lowered patrolling expenditures 

 alone. 



for. State Forests and Parks, and great rural parks of 

 municipalities have developed the same problems. Park 

 and forest boards of these divisions of government must 



DESOLATION 

 No one would argue the fact that it would be a good investment if one six dollar fireplace would prevent such a disaster as this. 



