lots IB generally very limited. In most oases they are 

 quite a distance from the large centers of population but 

 are eagerly sought by those having ways of getting to them. 



Our first area on the Santa Barbara was about sixty 

 miles froir. Los Angoles but several parties were out at the 

 tract to make application for lots before we had finished 

 the survey. There were approximately 9C lots in this tract, 

 and as it was located on a bench on the slope of the mount- 

 ain and was fairly level, the area was laid out very mush 

 as a town site is surveyed, with blocks, lots, streets, etc. 

 Other areas were either canyon or river bottoms, and the 

 lots were more scattered, many being Isolated. 



Our last area was on the Santa Ynez River, perhaps 25 

 miles north of Santa Barbara. Many nice lots were located 

 there, as the land along the river is fairly level and the 

 oalc timber Quite thick and forming fine shade. 



The problem of supplying water for the special use areas 

 is as great in the south as it is on the Sierra. Many of the 

 streams become dry during the summer and water has to be eith- 

 er developed or piped from quite a distance. 



I found the special use work very interesting, and feel 

 tha'i; my time for the three months was well spent. The oppor- 

 tunity of exchanging ideas, of observing the administration 

 of the various Porest activities under conditions differing 

 froir. our own, must have one result the enlarging and broad- 

 ening of one's mind, and thereby the caking one of more service 

 to his own Porest. But the most pleasant part of the time was 

 that spent In forcing new acquaintances among the members of 

 the Service bnth in the field and In the office at Los Angeles 

 and at Santa Barbara where every courtesy was shown us. 



Winter Sports at Huntington Lake. 



by 

 Claude K. Barker 



About eighty people, most of thorn members of the Commer- 

 cial Club of Fresno, attended the \rlnter sports at Euntington 

 Lake in February. The party experienced various modes of trav- 

 el before reaching their destination. The trip from Fresno to 

 Cascada was by the San Joaquin ii Eastern Railroad; froiz Casoada 

 they were taken in stages for two miles , then transferred to 

 snow boats. These snow boats were built on the sano principle 

 as a flat-bottom row boat, and were drawn by four or six horses 

 hitched tandem. In the snow boats the orowd was ta!:en over 

 eight and ten feet of snow to Huntington Lake Lodg*. 



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