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used for the benefit of the home builder first of all, upon whom depends the 

 best permanent use of lands and resources alike. The continued prosperity of 

 the agricultural, lumbering, mining, and livestock interests is directly depend- 

 ent upon a permanent and accessible supply of water, wood, and forage, as well 

 as upon the present and future use of these resources under businesslike regu- 

 lations enforced with promptness, effectiveness, and common sense. 



Figure 3. — One of the mean jobs in Forest Service work is fighting fire. 

 It is hard, hot, suffocating, dangerous labor. 



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It isn't romatic. 



In the management of each reserve local questions will be decided upon local 

 grounds, the dominant industry will be considered first, but with as little re- 

 striction to minor industries as may be possible ; sudden changes in industrial 

 conditions will be avoided by gradual adjustment after due notice, and where 

 conflicting interests must be reconciled the question will always be decided 

 from the standpoint of the greatest good to the greatest number in the long run. 



Lands which are more valuable for agriculture than for forestry 

 purposes have been excluded from the national forests either by 

 changes in the forest boundaries or by being opened to settlement 

 and entry under the Forest Homestead Act of June 11, 1906. The 

 act of August 10, 1912, which directed that the national-forest lands 



