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 s inking- fund charge to-day, grafted up to a large 

 charge fifty years hence - more: we should make 

 park'"' bonds tturj seventy-five or one hundred years 

 and make the present amortization charges 

 negligible." (Nolen 1917) 16 . 



In any event, recreational forests are 

 ordinarily entirely feasible at moderate first cost 

 and relatively low upkeep, if only foresight and good 

 judgment are exercised from the very beginning in 

 making the plans and carrying out the scheme . What- 

 ever the methods used, two principles are of 

 fundamental importance; first, the acquisition of 

 land at an early date, and secondly, the acquisition 

 of too much rather than too little land. 



The matter of maintenance of forest 

 reservations need not necessarily involve heavy 

 expenditures of money. It "need not, for many 

 years at least, exceed the expense of guarding them from 

 forest fires, and the other forms of depredation." 13 - 

 If, however, the community should wish to clean the 

 streams, build paths or roads, or do any other 

 proper work within the reservations, funds for such 



improvements should be provided as outlined in the 

 previous paragraph, and whatever the expense, it is 

 difficult to imagine a more purely beneficent 



