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FOREST OUTINGS 



New England is a region of heavy recreational use. Much of this use is 



in areas where the original forest long ago gave way to second- or third- 

 or fourth-growth stands. There are countless little wood-using plants getting 

 raw material from the same forests that millions of people frequent for 

 pleasure. And the reconciliation of the demands of millions of forest visitors 

 with the harvesting of successive timber crops in northern New Hampshire 

 is. perhaps, the best example of the multiple-use form of national forest 

 management. The cut of timber from the White Mountain National Forest 

 this year will represent about $52,000, of which 25 percent or SI 3.000 will 

 be returned, in lieu of taxes, to the counties in which national forest land 

 is located. The forest has paid more than SI 92.000 to the States of New 

 Hampshire and Maine. 



Simultaneously, the recreation business has grown to be one of Xew 

 Hampshire's most profitable sources of revenue. As early as 1935 returns 

 reached the impressive total of S~5.000.000. of which $18,000,000 is esti- 

 mated to have come from the White Mountain area. 



Thus, public management may reconcile divergent interests and uses and 

 deliver, from forest and wild lands generally, "the greatest good to the 

 greatest number of people in the long run." 



The ponderosa pine stands in the Black Hills of South Dakota have been 

 cut by forestry methods for more than 30 years, yet thousands of people 

 visit this area each summer and delight in the beauty of the growing forest. 

 The overmature trees are gone, but the many near-mature trees and sap- 

 lings which have remained after selective lodging furnish refreshing shade 

 and beauty to people from the Great Plains who visit these cut-over forests 

 for their vacations, and dash out amid lightning bursts, in thundergusts, 

 to let the spilled, whipped rain beat upon them, a release from drought and 

 deprivation, a renewal — hope. 



