One of the outstanding trends in nonurban areas is the pronounced shift 

 to dispersed recreation activities. While existing facilities continue 

 to be used, especially those associated with water-oriented activities, 

 the recreationist is expanding his horizon and now roams far and wide in 

 search of new opportunity. The key to this new phenomenon is the mobil- 

 ity and self-sufficiency of the user. A mobile and self-sufficient 

 recreationist is a discriminating user who will go to the place that pro- 

 vides the type of recreation and quality of environment desired on a 

 given day. For the four National Forests constituting the bulk of the 

 forest land, the annual budget for adequate maintenance of the recreation 

 program is projected to increase from the current $1,080,000 to 

 $1,740,000 in 1990 and $2,550,000 in 2020. The backlog on construction 

 is $1,904,000, including facilities for 200 camper stalls at critically 

 overused sites. If the trend continues, new types of services will be 

 needed and some traditional services will have to be deemphasized. 



Desired Future Conditions 



(1) If the study area residents desire "full employment" there must be a 

 corresponding increase in basic employment to support the projected 

 increase in population. Extractive basic employment in mining, agricul- 

 ture, and forestry is declining and other sources of basic employment 

 must be found to bring outside money into the basin. For "full employ- 

 ment," 36,300 basic full-time jobs (an increase of 5,400 jobs over 1970 

 in addition to replacement of 1,950 jobs projected to be lost during the 

 same period) will be required by 1990, and 46,500 basic employment jobs 

 will be required by 2020 to support derivative employment of 45,700 and 

 59,500 in order to support the projected populations of 232,000 and 

 284,000 respectively. 



(2) Phase out or reduce maintenance of relatively unused recreational 

 facilities on public land and implement new management practices and 

 construct 200 new camping stalls at overused sites and provide services 

 at new locations that the public needs and will use. 



(3) Acquire general recreation access to public lands at 39 additional 

 locations and fishing access at 62 additional stream locations in order 

 to spread access use so that no sites are overused to the extent that 

 they detract from the natural beauty of the areas which they serve. 



(4) Improve production efficiency on 1,984,000 acres of commercial 

 timber land and produce the basin's economically competitive share of the 

 National wood using markets regardless of projections such as OBERS 

 series C in table 13. 



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