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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



crude stone fire-places, and dried "bough-beds" in un- 

 counted numbers where before only a coyote paused 

 now and then to yap in his nightly prcwl. 



In the last five years, cabins summer homes where 

 people will come to live a few weeks each summer, have 

 leaped into existence by 

 scores. Small colonies and 

 "all summer" camps have 

 sprung up in most romantic 

 and remote regions where 

 the ring of an ax was un- 

 known lest some native 

 blazed his way into moun- 

 tain meadows where he 

 might keep a flock of sheep 

 or herd of cattle. All this 

 has come about through 

 public clamor for play and 

 recreation grounds. The 

 car was the basis of the 

 invasion it alone made pos- 

 sible. We cannot decry the 

 great American public their 

 God-given impulse to clamor for and demand beauty, 

 /est, peace, and recreation. It is as natural that people 

 play as it is natural that cub bears frolic. A wise Creator 

 touched the soul of each of us that we might crave these 

 things and have them. They are a bath for the soul 

 that might 

 otherwise warp 

 and narrow in 

 the conflict of 

 human exist- 

 ence. 



The re fore, 

 we of the 

 mountains 

 would say to 

 you : "Come, 

 it's your play- 

 ground your 

 haven of soul- 

 rest." The 

 mighty moun- 

 tains must ever 

 remain the 

 Vacation land 

 of America's 

 d e m oc r atic 

 populace. God 

 meant it so; 

 so be it. 



The folk of 



the mountains and Forest Service have been entrusted 

 with the guardianship of this priceless treasure. You 

 of the north, the east, the south, the west, should know 

 and realize that the task is one of stupendous magnitude. 

 Perhaps you will grasp its enormity when I tell you 



While this number of "American Forestry" is in the 

 printing or being carried to you in the mail, men will be 

 standing hip-deep in icy water netting fish from which 

 eggs will be taken and sent to the hatcheries so some 

 years hence you or your friends may angle In some trout 

 stream with a reasonable chance of having a tussle with 

 a member of this season's hatch. At this season when 

 most people seek a cozy fire-side these men who love the 

 work are active under the most trying weather condi- 

 tions. Mr. Doering is the possessor of first-hand knowl- 

 edge of how fish are raised so they may lure some fisher- 

 sportsman to a forest vacationland. Few people realize 

 the rigors of carrying on this raising and planting of 

 trout. In this, the writer sketches briefly the methods 

 followed and barriers overcome. It is of interest to 

 every recreation user of every forest land and carries 

 information of value to all. Arthur H. Carhart, Editor, 

 Recreation Department. 



AFTER ALL, THEIR'S WAS AN INGLORIOUS END BUT USEFUL. LET US HOPE THAT THEIR 

 SPIRITS HAVE PASSED SAFELY TO THEIR HAPPY SWIMMING GROUNDS 



that there are just a few thousand Forest men to keep 

 the streams free from pollution, keep them stocked with 

 fish, keep the forests abounding with natural life for the 

 benefit and pleasure of yourself and posterity, main- 

 tain the endless miles of road and trail, and preserve. the 



timber that is fast becom- 

 ing our most valued asset. 

 In this gigantic garden 

 which you have given these 

 Service men to protect, 

 115,000,000 people are en- 

 titled to come and play 

 whenever they may choose ; 

 there is no feature closed 

 or forbidden. In caring 

 for all this, the Service has 

 to depend upon very limited 

 funds alloted us by an 

 austere and solemn Con- 

 gress. These men do not 

 criticize Congress. Con- 

 gress must feel the pulse 

 of the whole nation and 

 must prescribe accordingly. 

 They work on with the hope that the American citizen 

 will, before long, come to a fuller realization that the 

 Forests need his earnest co-operation and fore-thought. 

 Time and space forbid that I go into the many phases 

 of this work with which the Forest Service is entrusted. 



I can tell you 

 here, very con- 

 cisely, of one 

 phase of the 

 work ; one very 

 essential and 

 necessary phase 

 of which little 

 is known or 

 p r ac ticed at 

 present, name- 

 ly, fish culture. 

 What is fish 

 culture? It is 

 a term applied 

 to the art of 

 raising fish 

 from the egg 

 or "spawn" to 

 the marketable 

 product. Why 

 the need for 

 fish c ulture ? 

 Because the 

 trout family in 

 their natural environment and habit, do not reproduce 

 sufficiently to meet, anywhere near, the fast increasing 

 and already enormous demands of the public. 



There are three species of trout living within the 

 higher reaches of the Rocky Mountains ; the native, the 



