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some money on it, and will want to consider projects for tourist trails, 

 drift fences to keep stock out of valuable recreation areas, fenced camp- 

 ers' pastures, improved camp grounds, water troughs, hitching racks, re- 

 clamation of eroding meadows by ditching, auto turn-outs on roads now 

 unusable for lack of them, improvement of viewpoints, Forest portals 

 and signs, etc. 



In your time-estimates, please include such activities as stocking 

 streams with fish, and exploration to develop new recreation areas. 



There are many potentialities of securing co-operation in such im- 

 provements and activities. The camper trade is a profitable one for a lo- 

 cality, and county supervisors, chambers of commerce or sportsmen's 

 clubs may be willing to work with us. Let us make sure that every or- 

 ganization which is willing has an opportunity to go the limit. 



You or your deputy take many trips into interesting country on your 

 Forest each year. Work up a party or two to go with you next season, 

 made up of representative men from the region you wish to interest in 

 the recreation resources of your Forest. This need not interfere with 

 your regular work in the slightest, nor cost the government a cent. At 

 the same time it will not only be the most effective kind of advertising, 

 but will establish personal relations between the Service and recreation 

 users that will be immensely valuable. 



Most important of all, every supervisor and district ranger must see 

 to it that he and every man on the job has the correct point of view. 

 The incorrect point of view is that campers are nothing more than a fire 

 risk, that they are a nuisance, or that their lack of knowledge of the 

 mountains is ridiculous. The correct point of view is that each one is a 

 citizen using the National Forest and becoming a better citizen by doing 

 so; that while there he is the guest of the Forest Service, and that we 

 have distinct responsibilities concerning him. It might be profitable to 

 think what impression we are making on the camper. We will have 

 made the correct one only when every visitor leaves the Forest convinced 

 of the fact that the pine-tree badge, wherever seen, means courtesy, 

 friendliness and helpfulness — and does not mean surveillance or offi- 

 ciousness. 



(Signed) Coert Dubois, 



District Forester 



