YOUR FOREST LAND 



Lewis and Clark National Forest and the Custer. In northern Idaho are 

 the Clearwater, the Coeur D'Alene, the Nezperce, the St. Joe. 



Then again over great mountains to the coast. To the south in Cali- 

 fornia the Angeles, the Cleveland, and Los Padres. More to the north and 

 inland the Sequoia, the Eldorado, the Klamath, the Shasta, the Tahoe. 

 In Oregon the Fremont, the Malheur, the Mount Hood, the Rogue River, 

 the Umatilla. In the State of Washington the Chelan, the Columbia, the 

 Mount Baker, the Wenatchee, and many others. 



Alaska is Region 10. It has two great national forests, the Chugach and 

 the Tongass, with headquarters at Juneau. 



Thus incompletely we have called the roll of our national forests and 

 are ready now to see what is being done with them. 1 



Some of the Crops . . . To conserve and increase all the values that any 

 given piece of land, be it an acre of farm woodland privately owned or a 

 2-million-acre national forest, may yield, it is generally unnecessary to 

 withdraw the land entirely from human use. Now and then the Forest 

 Service takes over a piece of country so completely racked by headlong 

 private exploitation as to seem for the time being completely useless. The 

 timber has been hacked to rotting stumps and the land burned over. The 

 brush cover is gone. The grass is gone. Much of the soil is gone. There is 

 no game. The streams are foul and muddy. Such scenery as remains cries 

 to Heaven of heedless greed and ruin. 



On such scattered areas there may be nothing to do at first but bar for 

 a while all further material cropping, let the worn land rest, coax back 

 vegetation — grass, brush, trees — to resume its ancient work of clothing 

 wounded earth, healing it, and holding the soil together. Lumbering is out 

 for years to come. Pasturing is out. Hunting and fishing are out for the 

 time being. But as the land heals, and takes on something of its former 

 beauty, certain measured uses may be allowed. 



One of the first uses possible may be for human recreation. This worn 

 area may be nothing much to look at, as yet, but still it may be the most 



1 A complete list of such forests, their location, and areas is appended on page 289, 

 Appendix. 



