the names of ranger stations, camps, trails, mountains, creeks, tower look- 

 outs, and side camps on the Forest Service maps. 



As for the forests, their names however prosaically listed make a song or 

 chant of the past and of the hopes of this country and its people. It is too bad 

 that Thomas Wolfe, the young American writer who so rejoiced in American 

 place names and rolled them forth in his novels with such sweep and gusto, 

 did not come upon a Forest Service directory before he died. Perhaps Pare 

 Lorentz, who made a poem of American river names in the sound-track 

 accompaniment of his talking film, The River, will some day make a name 

 poem of our forests. For even in the plainest prose the names of the national 

 forests are beautiful. To call but a few: 



On the island of Puerto Rico the Caribbean National Forest; the Ocala 

 and the Choctawhatchee, in Florida. In South Carolina the Francis 

 Marion. In North Carolina the Nantahala, and in Alabama the Black 

 Warrior. In Georgia the Chattahoochee, and in Tennessee the Cherokee. 

 In West Virginia the Monongahela, in Virginia the Jefferson and the George 

 Washington. In Pennsylvania the Allegheny. And the White Mountain 

 Forest of New Hampshire, and the Green Mountain Forest of Vermont. 



Passing west: The Wayne Purchase Unit of Ohio. In Michigan the 

 Manistee. In Illinois the Shawnee. The Hawkeye Purchase Unit of Iowa. 

 In Minnesota the Chippewa, and the Chequamegon in Wisconsin. 



Then the Prairie States Forestry Project covering parts of Kansas, Ne- 

 braska, the Dakotas, Oklahoma, and Texas. The Black Hills and Harney 

 Forests of South Dakota. The Ouachita and the Ozark of Arkansas. 



In the Colorado Rockies the Arapaho, the Grand Mesa, the Gunnison, 

 the Pike, the San Isabel, the White River, the Uncompahgre. And up in 

 Wyoming the Bighorn, the Medicine Bow, the Shoshone, the Washakie. 



The Apache, the Coronado, the Crook, and the Prescott of Arizona. In 

 New Mexico the Carson, the Cibola, the Gila, the Lincoln, the Santa Fe. 

 The Caribou and the Challis, the Payette, the Sawtooth, and the Minidoka 

 of southern Idaho. In Utah the Fishlake, the Manti, the Uinta, the Powell; 

 and the Teton in Wyoming. 



In Montana the Absaroka, the Beaverhead, the Bitterroot; and the 

 Deerlodge and the Flathead and the Gallatin. Also in Montana are the 



