CAMPS 101 



on their way south this year to the Ocala Forest in Florida, where there is 

 a winter trailer camp. 



Having heard all this the forester gives them a note, penciled on a page 

 from his notebook, to his former university teacher of forest conservation and 

 agricultural journalism. "You see! I knew you'd find help when the time 

 came !" the mother exclaims. 



Summer Homes . . . Many families who come to the forests for vacations 

 want greater permanency, greater comfort, and more isolation than camp- 

 grounds offer. The Forest Service has for years issued permits 

 giving individuals exclusive temporary rights to build summer homes on 

 small tracts of public land. The sites, in the main, are carefully selected. 

 The permittees are required to comply with approved building plans, with 

 permit conditions, and to see that all developments are suitable to the forest. 

 Few people can afford a summer home in the forest, and the exclusive use 

 of land for home sites is not, as a rule, allowed to compete with other forms 

 of recreational use. Campgrounds, picnic grounds, and other developed areas 

 for use of the general public usually require fairly level ground, and there 

 are often hillsides suited for no forms of intensive use except summer 

 homes. 



Holders of summer-home permits are encouraged to form cooperative 

 associations. These associations, whether in groups or scattered, can provide 

 community docks, boathouses, water systems, telephone and power services, 

 and buildings for community meetings, which the individual could not 

 afford. Permittee cooperatives cooperate in such matters as watchman 

 services, delivery of supplies, and fire protection. Associations also afford 

 a medium through which forest users can advise the Forest Service of their 

 needs and by round-table discussion arrive at an amicable solution of com- 

 mon problems. 



Seeley Lake lies 50 miles from Missoula, Mont., in the Lolo National 

 Forest. It is a small lake, l / 2 mile wide and 2 miles long, located in a wide, 

 timbered valley surrounded by high peaks of the Swan and Mission Moun- 

 tains. Around this attractive forest lake has grown a recreational center 



