16 MISC. PUBLICATION 290, U. 8S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FORESTS 
Making the national forests fully useful to the public, and also 
facilitating their administration and protection as Government prop- 
erties, requires that they be equipped with various classes of improve- 
ments. Some of these are primarily for official use, as for example, 
fire lookout stations, ranger stations, and telephone lines. 
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FIGURE 11.—Cold Knob Fire Tower. Allegheny National Forest, Pa. — 
Other improvements are purely for the specific benefit of the pub- 
lic, as for example, drift fences, stock-watering places, and publ 
campgrounds. Still others, such as roads, trails, and stock drive- 
ways, are put in both to facilitate the task of administering and 
protecting the forests and to serve the interests of the public gen- 
erally. 
The Forest Service cooperates with State and county officials, good- 
roads organizations, and private individuals in the location, survey, 
construction, and maintenance of roads in the national forests. The 
road- and trail-construction work is ordinarily financed from regular 
appropriations made by Congress, but money has also been made 
available by allotments of emergency funds. 
