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In recent years the Bighorn, like nearly all the other national forests, 

 has been called upon for a fourth type of service. During these years 

 the people of the United States have learned to play out-of-cloors. 

 The automobile and extensive road building have resulted in an 

 almost universal hunt for the open. In the course of this hunt the 

 national forests have been " discovered," and camps, summer homes, 

 and resorts are now found in practically all of them. 



Fig. 17. — Hewing a tree with a 1 roadax, Bighorn National Forest 



Residents in the vicinity of the Bighorn National Forest are annu- 

 ally hosts to thousands of vacationists from all over the United 

 States, and through their hospitality place at the disposal of these 

 visitors a region ideally adapted to outdoor recreation. And they 

 do it with just pride, for they have taken a personal interest in the 



