BOY SCOUTS TRAIL BUILDING 



THE United States Government, which is Gilead, Me. They will camp 



always desiring to educate the in the valley of Wild River, a tributary 



public on the subject of the of the Androscoggin River, and will 



proper use and protection of have two stretches of trail to build, 



forests, has found a means to cooperate "The first will be alongside of Wild 



in a practical way with the Boy Scouts River and the work will consist merely 



of America. Through arrangements in the improvement of a rough trail, 



made by the United States Forestry which needs to be put into condition so 



Service, twenty-four Boy Scouts eight that horses can travel over it. 



from Washington, D. C., eight from "The second stretch of trail will be 



Baltimore, and eight from Boston are located in the timber, where no means 



to build this coming summer a ten-mile of quick travel existed before, 

 trail in a remote part of the White 



Mountain National Forest. The plans "A PICTURESQUE COUNTRY. 



for this work and the unusual oppor- j t is unne cessary to state that the 



tunity it provides for these boys to prac- reg ion in which the boys will work, the 



tice their Scoutcraft and learn some- white Mountains, possesses many 



thing about forestry, and for the gov- scenic attractions. Immediately west 



ernment to make more intelligent and o f t h e Wild River Valley is the Carter 



vital the interest of boys in practical Moriah Range, which rises abruptly to 



conservation, are described by Forest a he j g ht of 5,000 feet. Ten miles west 



Inspector K. W. Woodward, of the of the b > camp) as the crow fl ies> is 



United States Forestry Service, in an the summit of the Presidential Range, 



article which appears, with illustrations, with Mt Washington, the highest peak 



in the June number of Boys' Life, the in the whitg MountainS) standing 6,300 



Boy Scouts Magazine. Mr. Woodward feet aboye gea leyel 



sa y s j "The main stream to which Wild 



' Twenty-four Boy Scouts under the Riyer and thg Qther minor streams in 



direction of three Scout Masters will the vidnit are tributary is the Andro- 



build ten miles of trail for the United s irij which hea ds in Maine, flows 



atCS F r , e r St - Se y V ^ Ce m , the W tC through New Hampshire and empties 



Mountain National Forest this summer. intQ ^ Qcean in Maine The elevation 



In return for this work the Boy Scouts aboye gea leyel al the valley of the 



will be paid at a rate equivalent to that Androscoggin is approximately 1,000 



which the Government would have to fegt SQ that the rise to three or four 



pay for the construction of this trail thousand feet from this stream to the 



were the work done by the regular heights o f the high mountains produces 



very rugged topography. In fact, the 

 greater part of this locality is so steep 



TO CAMP IN THE VALLEY OF W!LD RIVER. | n( j ^ J^ that agriculture is of minor 



"The trail which the Boy Scouts will importance. 



build is intended primarily as a means "The forest resources are the main 

 of protection against fire. However, it assets. Lumbering is the principal in- 

 will also be useful in making the White dustry, with the business of providing 

 Mountian National Forest more acces- for tourists who are attracted by the 

 sible to tourists and prospective timber mountain scenery second in importance, 

 purchasers, and parts of it may even "Since the region has been settled for 

 be used later on in the logging of the more than 150 years and is one of con- 

 timber through which it passes. siderable wealth, many good roads make 



"The boys will be working approxi- nearly all parts accessible. Where the 



mately ten miles from the nearest town, topography is so rugged that roads are 

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