GOVERNMENT FOREST WORK oF 
they are also a great public convenience and neces- 
sity. The Forest Service has pushed road building as 
rapidly as money could be secured for the purpose, 
because it has believed Federal ownership of great 
bodies of land in relatively undeveloped regions Car- 
ries with it an obligation to bear part of the cost of 
developing the road system required to meet the 
needs of local residents and communities. (Fig. 14.) 
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FIGURE 14.—Road scene on the Natural Bridge National 
Forest, Va. 
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 werk is financed from 
appropriations under four different acts of Congress. 
These funds may be expended upon projects located 
within or partly within the national forests. 
Through cooperative arrangement the road projects 
which require the supervision of engineers intensively 
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