50 OUR NATIONAL FORESTS 



resources depend mainly upon facilities for trans- 

 portation, communication, and control. All parts 

 of the National Forests should be accessible by 

 roads and trails; there should be telephone com- 

 munication between settlements and Forest officers' 

 headquarters and with the lookout stations ; and in 

 most cases suitable living accommodations must 

 be provided for the field force. For the fullest use 

 of the forage resources, water for the live stock must 

 be developed and range fences constructed; to re- 

 duce the hazard and the cost and difficulty of con- 

 trolling forest fires, firebreaks and other works 

 must be constructed. 



Transportation Facilities. Adequate facilities 

 for travel and transportation are of first import- 

 ance. Steam roads, electric roads, and boat lines 

 are utilized in the National Forest transportation 

 system as well as the existing roads and trails. 

 Added to this, new roads and trails are being con- 

 structed every year to complete the already existing 

 network. 



The need for new roads and trails depends upon 

 the number of them already existing, the value of 

 the resources that it is necessary to make accessible, 

 the fire liability, and the amount of unrealized rev- 



