IQ MISC. PUBLICATION 290, U. S. 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. 



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 public 

 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 bv allotments of emero'encv funds. 



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