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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



thus realize on 

 all of the good 

 forage that can 

 be found. There 

 are points 

 where some in- 

 dividual cattle 

 man will be 

 inconvenienced 

 by this ar- 

 rangem ent. 

 There have 

 been many 

 cases already 

 where some 

 disgruntled in- 

 dividual has 

 objected to the 

 use of his cat- 

 tle range by a 

 number of hu- 

 mans, and there 

 are instances 

 where the cat- 

 tle man has 

 been so vocif- 

 erous in his 

 crying over 

 what he con- 

 siders an injus- 

 tice to his steers that he has made himself heard by large 

 groups. But happily in the majority of the cases where 

 the recreational use has been introduced along with 



BEAUTY UNHERALDED BY FAME 



Great tumbled rocks and water always make a pleas- 

 ing landscape composition when Nature is the artist. 



o f t h e forest 

 as a recreation 

 grounds is al- 

 most so slight 

 as to be unes- 

 timable. 



Mining 

 dumps on the 

 landscape are 

 often unsight- 

 ly. No recrea- 

 tionist would 

 care to have a 

 summer home 

 that, looked on 

 a hillside pitted 

 with prospect 

 holes. And 

 power devel- 

 opment should 

 often legiti- 

 mately steal 

 from the beau- 

 ty of a water- 

 fall. But in 

 each of these 

 cases the eco- 

 nomic return 

 is so intensive 

 from the small 

 extent area, the number of places where such use can be 

 made of grounds is so limited there is no question but 

 what there should be all preference given the strictly 



JEWEL IN A SETTING OF SOFT GREEN 



Colorado's National Forests offer many such haunts 

 of sheer beauty. 



grazing in the forests the cattle men have recognized that commercial side of the development of either mining or 



play in forests had come to stay and were glad that 

 there could be proper planning to localize and direct the 

 use to the greatest advantage to both of the forest 

 resources. 



There never will be a great interference between recre- 

 ation and grazing in forests. There will be so slight a 

 reduction in cattle grazed on certain areas set aside for 



power. But this statement is not applicable to the 

 wanton destruction of natural beauty through misguided 

 enterprise that tries to develop water power from a dainty 

 little fall that would never turn a wheel of sufficient size to 

 merit its destruction, nor where mining claims are staked 

 merely to secure title to land for use other than mining. 

 So it will be seen in reviewing the relationships here 



human use that no effect will be felt at any point in the discussed that the recreational use of the forest is almost 



nation's supply of beef. And 

 because several people can 

 enjoy a whole summer's resi- 

 dence on a piece of forest 

 ground that would not begin 

 to graze one hungry steer 

 and because the health of the 

 nation depends as much on 

 recreation out of doors as it 

 does on steaks indoors it is 

 probable that the human use 

 will remain the preferred 

 one in certain localities. But 

 in considering this slight 

 conflict of uses it should be 

 remembered at all times that 

 the reduction in beef pro- 

 duction through utilization 



WINTER SPORTS IN THE ROCKIES 



The Rocky Mountains offer opportunities for winter sports equal in 

 every way to those found in any other region. Here a ski party is 

 seen near the Continental Divide in the scenic highlands of the 

 Colorado National Forest. 



an added one. It is a realiza- 

 tion on the collective invest- 

 ment of the people in the 

 forests that gives a great 

 aggregate return to them on 

 that investment and in no 

 appreciable measure does it 

 interfere with the economic 

 use of the forest. It is the 

 forest's most direct return to 

 its owners, the public. 



Public health should stand 

 before every other consid- 

 eration in a community; And 

 public health should not in- 

 clude alone a consideration 

 of bodily condition, but 

 should consider the mental 



