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MANY DELIGHTFUL TRIPS MAY BE TAKEN BY MOTOR BOAT TO THE INDIAN CAMPS ALONG THE BANKS DURING THE BEKRY 

 SEASON, TO BEACHES WHICH LURE ONE TO TAKE A DIP IN THE CLEAR WATERS OF THE LAKE. OR TO FISHING GROUNDS 

 THAT HOLD FIGHTING GAME FISH OF LARGE SIZE, ADDING ZEST TO THE LIFE OF THE SPORTSMAN 



proper planning and far-sighted policies established we 

 will be able to meet the oncoming years without any 

 chance of not satisfying our demands for recreation. 

 Only through unorganized conditions and ill founded 

 plans can we lose our great heritage in the scenic wealth of 

 our land. But this wealth is so easily dissipated through 

 what is often believed to be and mis-named development 

 that the time may easily come when there will be no 

 last wilderness where one may go to view God's handi- 

 work without the chance of viewing also a hideous struc- 

 ture or the marring of scenic beauty by the grossest 

 commercialism. 



Now is the time for the beginning of an amply organ- 

 ized, properly planned, Well executed system of national 

 recreation. Today we are but partly organized. There 

 is a lack of correlation of all agencies working toward 

 the development of this resource. There is a lament- 

 able lack of competent artistry in these developments. 



Never again will there be the opportunity to start 

 with so Sew mistakes made as at present. The great un- 

 touched wealth of many areas but remains to be planned 

 and developed to offer recreation, health and joy to thou- 

 sands. The movement to the outdoors has no more than 

 started and ten years hence will see all forces scrambling 

 frantically to stay ahead of the tide unless count of the 

 future is taken today. 



Are we facing a new kind of a famine that of avail- 

 able recreation? Yes and no. Yes! If we do not 

 now start to fully organize and adequately plan for the 



future developments and now systematize our present 

 efforts. No ! If we can start now to look far into the 

 future when the population of our country has perhaps 

 doubled and people demand governmentally owned open 

 spaces where they may go each year to live their vaca- 

 tion time. No! If we can but see the vision and now 

 start a really comprehensive plan for each unit within 

 the national system and as well an ordered plan for -the 

 whole. 



Many men of great vision and ability stand ready to 

 help in any plan for the betterment of our recreation 

 system. Today we have unexcelled material for such a 

 system based on the great National Forests, Parks, Monu- 

 ments and Reservations. State and county parks are 

 being developed in widely separated regions heralding a 

 day when they will be universal. The future promises 

 a use of these areas that today can be but conjectured. 

 Are we going to make the most of this opportunity and 

 meet the coming demand? Will our recreation areas 

 meet the exacting requirements in the future or will 

 people longing for outdoor life have to continue to live 

 hungering? Correlation, organization, well founded and 

 artistic planning and vision can solve the problem and 

 the foundation stands today waiting for master builders 

 to rear thereon a structure of splendid proportions 

 which will give our land for all time a truly national 

 recreational system. Proper action now assures the 

 future of such a system that will be more than everun 

 the coming years a national asset of inestimable value. 



