1 6 OUR FEDERAL LANDS 



with the genius of our times and with the national 

 life of to-day, and to consider, glancing back at his- 

 tory, the movements and influences which will bend 

 it to its new uses, that this book is written. It is to 

 help the thinking of multitudes who are deeply con- 

 cerned in these new problems. 



A joint committee, of which the author was 

 secretary, of the American Forestry and National 

 Parks Associations surveyed in 1925-27 the recrea- 

 tional opportunities of federal lands for report to 

 the National Conference on Outdoor Recreation. 

 The long studies for the report, the first in a fasci- 

 nating new field, have helped in preparation of this 

 book, which, however, unlike that, also visions Fed- 

 eral Lands from the historic and economic points of 

 view. The report was published in 1928. 



