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Through cooperative arrangement the highway projects which re- 

 quire the supervision of engineers intensively trained in highway 

 engineering and construction are handled by the Bureau of Public 

 Koads. The construction, repair, and maintenance of truck trails 

 required primarily for administrative, utilization, and protective 

 purposes on the national forests, together with the building and 



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Figure 12. — Telephones are highly essential in fire prevention on national forests. 



maintenance of foot and horse trails, are handled directly by the 

 Forest Service. Such work is coordinated with fire control, when- 

 ever possible, so that construction crews may be available as part of 

 the fire-suppression organization in remote areas of great fire hazard. 



Up to June 30, 1939, 8,338 miles of forest highways, 55,082 miles of 

 truck trails, and 110,578 miles of foot trails had been constructed from 

 direct forest road appropriations and other Federal and cooperative 

 funds apportioned to the States. More than $372,000,000 has been 

 spent on this work in the history of the Forest Service. In addition, 

 many more thousands of miles of roads and trails have been maintained. 



Complete and economical use of the forage on the forests some- 

 times makes necessary development of water supplies or construction 



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