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tables, chairs, typewriters, tree-measuring instru- 

 ments, tents, cooking utensils, surveying instru- 

 ments, snow shoes, skiis, knapsacks, water buckets, 

 canteens, kodaks, and many other forms of equip- 

 ment are furnished by the Property Clerk, although 

 in cases of emergency some of these things may be 

 purchased locally by Forest officers by the authority 

 of the Forest Supei-visor. 



NATIONAL, FOREST IMKOVEMENTS 



The Need of Improvements. It is but natural, 

 from their situation, that the National Forests rep- 

 resent pioneer conditions ; conditions that one might 

 expect to find in a wild, rugged, mountainous coun- 

 try. This was true to an extreme degree when the 

 National Forests were fii'st established and it is true 

 in a very large degree even to-day, since the amount 

 of time and money which it will be necessary to 

 expend on the construction of improvements on the 

 155,000,000 acres of National Forests is something 

 enormous. For a long time to come, then, the Na- 

 tional Forests will need improvements in order to 

 make them secure against fire and in order to make 

 the resources, now locked up, available. Proper 

 protection and the fullest use of National Forest 



