12 OUR FEDERAL LANDS 



city governments of the United States in new roads 

 alone. The sum will be colossal; it might even have 

 reorganized and refinanced Europe. 



A network of ever closer mesh has been drawn 

 across the continent from ocean to ocean, including 

 our Federal Lands. Even the desert southwest is 

 crisscrossed with highly surfaced roads and alive 

 with the new invasion. 



National Forests and National Parks, because 

 of the charm of their woods, waters and scenery, 

 naturally bear the brunt of road assault, but all Fed- 

 eral Lands contribute heavily and increasingly to 

 this new draft upon unexpected resources. Camp- 

 ing out, once the sport of boys, is now the pleasure 

 of adult hundreds of thousands of westerners and 

 eastern people who tour west. The western type 

 of mountain hotel-camp, consisting of a "grub- 

 house" surrounded by tents or rough cabins for 

 sleeping, has become nationalized and is developing 

 luxuriance. 



The enormous majority of pleasuring motor- 

 ists, however, are in no real sense out-door livers, 

 but rapid sightseers, flitting like butterflies from 

 flower to flower. This is true even in National 

 Parks, which are popularly but erroneously supposed 

 to draw millions of worshipping students. Several 

 hundred thousand, possibly, cover all of these; the 

 millions drive carelessly through on tour, with stops 

 of an hour or two or a day or two to see the sights, 

 just as between parks they drive through National 



