HANDBOOK FOR CAMPERS. \) 



Most of the forest rangers are also deputy State game com- 

 missioners. They assist the California Fish and Game Com- 

 mission in enforcing the game laws, stocking streams with fish, 

 and destroying predatory animals. Nearly 800 mountain lions, 

 coyotes, and wildcats are killed in California by forest officers 

 each year. 



Forest officers extinguish in the average year about 1,200 

 forest fires in California. Approximately 85 per cent of these 

 are discovered and controlled before they reach a size of 10 

 acres. The remaining 15 per cent cause an average loss of more 

 than §100,000 annually. Practically all the serious fires are 

 caused by human agency and would not occur if proper precau- 

 tions were taken. Inexperienced campers are responsible for 

 most of the preventable fires. 



Receipts from the sale of National Forest resources in Cali- 

 fornia amount to about $700,000 annually. Twenty-five per cent 

 of all such receipts go to the counties in which the Forests lie 

 to be used for schools and roads, amounting in this State to 

 about $180,000 annually ; and an additional 10 per cent of the 

 receipts, amounting to about $70,000, is spent on roads and trails 

 constructed primarily for the benefit of settlers within the 

 Forests. 



INDIVIDUAL NATIONAL FORESTS. 



The following are brief descriptions of the National Forests 

 in California. The map on pages 10 and 11 should be referred 

 to for their location. 



KLAMATH NATIONAL FOREST. 



The Klamath National Forest contains 1,746,037 acres. It 

 lies mostly in western Siskiyou County and is drained by 

 the Klamath River, from which it takes its name. Klamath 

 River has numerous tributaries, of which the most important 

 are Shasta, Scott, and Salmon Rivers, which flow into it from 



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