Table of Contents 



A FOREWORD BY SECRETARY WALLACE VII 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT XIII 



Part One EYE TO THE SKY, FOOT TO EARTH 



Chapter One. YOUR FOREST LAND 



The national forests 1 Now consider wildlife 7 



Immense and various 2 The main idea 9 



Some of the crops 5 For purposes of simple pleasure 1 



Other forest values 7 New woods and ways 1 3 



Chapter Two. AMERICANS NEED OUTINGS 



When this land was new 17 "I want out!" 23 



The scorn of ease 1 8 Rest and change 25 



On thinned soil, healing 19 Refuge 29 



Work and escape 19 Objectives 31 



The great outing 20 



Chapter Three. GUESTS OF THE FORESTS 



Each year they come 37 Anaconda 46 



Young couple from Spokane 38 The western Colorado mountains 50 



Family and fisherman 40 Most campgrounds 53 



A single lady taking notes 43 Others 54 



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