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VOL.- XXVII. NO. 8. 
OCTOBER, 1917. 
EDITORIAL 
LAND CLASSIFICATION IN 
NATIONAL FORESTS 
As a result of land classification 
work, more than eight million acres 
were eliminated from the national for- 
ests in the last fiscal year, and in addi- 
tion, over 1,100 individual tracts within 
the forests were made available for 
homestead entry, according to the an- 
nual report of Henry S. Graves, chief 
of the Forest Service, which empha- 
sizes the necessarily permanent charac- 
ter of the national forests, and points 
out the importance of definitely deter- 
mining the status of the land which the 
forests contain. “The national forests,” 
says Mr. Graves, “are gaining in stabil- 
ity through the land classification work 
It is important for the general pulilic 
to know what lands are to be retained 
permanently by the Government, and 
what lands will be availalile for agricul- 
tural settlement. 
The need for consolidating land own- 
ership where Government and private 
lands are interlocked is pointed out by- 
Mr. Graves. Congress has, he states, al- 
readyr authorized an exchange of lands 
on the Florida, the Oregon, and the 
Whitman National Forests. Under the 
same policy exchanges have been or are 
being negotiated with South Dakota, 
Montana, Idaho, and Washington for 
school lands in the national forests lo- 
cated in those States. The consumma- 
tion of three of these exchanges now 
awaits fitial approval by Congress. 
Other measures which will have a 
far-reaching significance in relation to 
the permanence of the national forests, 
says the report, are the appropriation liy 
Congress at its last session of ten 
million dollars for the construction of 
roads within the forests and that of 
three million dollars to extend the na- 
tional forests in the eastern mountains 
by purchase. “The appropriation for the 
construction of roads will permit the 
opening up of regions heretofore in- 
accessible, will greatly increase the use 
to the resources in the forests, will 
shorten lines of travel across the States 
and between communities, will stimulate 
prospecting and mining in mineral 
regions and will aid community upbuild- 
ing. The importance of having public 
forests at the headwaters of important 
streams has been recognized and great- 
ly emphasized through the appropria- 
tion of $3,900,000 for continued pur- 
chases of lands begun under the so- 
called Weeks Law. 
H ALKING. 
All health authorities agree that the 
ancient and simple pastime of walking 
is one of the healthiest of outdoor 
sports, and one that can be practiced by- 
all classes and conditions of people. In 
these days of universal automobiles, air- 
ships and other forms of rapid transit, 
walking has fallen somewhat into disuse. 
In several cities efforts are being made 
to encourage walking in the parks and 
woodlands, and every effort of this kind 
deserves the heartiest encouragement. 
In Hartford, personally conducted park 
walking tours are arranged for botanical 
and landscape study, and sulnirban walk- 
ing tours have been conducted by pri- 
vate organizations in Chicago. The first 
necessity to make walking popular is to 
make the walk attractive, and one of the 
finest of recent works in this direction 
has recently been made in Minneapolis, 
where a scenic pathway, or trail, has 
been built for pedestrians through a 
fine naturally wooded section of Glen- 
wood Park. The path has been so laid 
out as to traverse beautiful woodland 
scenes, with vantage points that open 
up beautiful views of the surrounding 
country. The walk winds about through 
the valleys and hills, and has been a 
revelation to the walkers who have en- 
joyed rambling along its winding way-. 
The walk is illustrated and described on 
another page in this issue, and has been 
built w'ith a surface particularly con- 
structed for the pedestrian’s comfort. 
Here is a fine suggestion to emulate in 
every park system or suburban wood- 
land. A combination of the Hartford 
plan of botanical study and the Minne- 
apolis plan of a specially designed walk 
offers many possibilities in popularizing 
walking. Every community should have 
a scenic walk and a walking club. Every 
public park of considerable extent has 
floral or landscape attractions that 
would add interest to a walk, and sys- 
tematic study of these features under 
proper guidance is all that is necessary 
to get park visitors interested. Walks 
into the country could be popularized in 
the same way by regularly organized 
parties that could meet at some subur- 
ban points that offered scenic attrac- 
tions to pedestrians. Let us do all we 
can to encourage the fine pastime of 
w-alking. 
CEMETERY LAWS. 
In a discussion of cemetery- legislation 
in this department last month, emphasis 
was laid on the need for laws in every 
state governing the management of 
cemeteries — laws that should require 
certain m.inimum standards of honesty 
and efficiency- in financial management 
and modern standards of physical devel- 
opment and care. Honestly managed, 
privately' owned cemeteries that are op- 
erated for profit are just as much in 
favor of such laws as are cemeteries 
that are not managed as private enter- 
prises for such laws wdll keep out of 
the cemetery- business unscrupulous 
stock jobbers who want to get as much 
of other people's money' as possible 
without making adequate provision for 
the cemetery. That private cemetery- 
companies are heartily in favor of such 
regulation is evidenced by a letter just 
received from the sales manager of a 
metropolitan cemetery that is operated 
for profit. We quote from it as follow-s : 
“The Septemlier number of ‘Park 
and Cemetery’ has just reached me. In 
it I have noticed a very splendid edito- 
rial on 'Uniform Cemetery Laws.’ May 
I not express my approval also of this 
very important subject. Too much em- 
phasis cannot be given the importance of 
the matter, as you say. No one know-s 
or realizes this more than do we, who 
are honestly trying to elevate the sub- 
ject of cemetery lot selling, and who 
are every- day making it our life’s W'ork. 
I for one, would like to alw'ays stand 
sponsor for any- legislative enactments, 
either State or National, that would 
place in safekeeping, all interests of the 
lot owners, w-hether it be care funds, 
rights of interment, ownership or any 
other feature. 1 never could under- 
stand why the State should not have 
supervision and control over the care 
fund and to see that it is accumulated 
according to the method adopted by the 
cemetery at the outset. To my mind 
this is one of the most important mat- 
ters that are not now guarded by the 
State and which permits manipulation 
by unscrupulous ones. Surely no one 
can say that this should be allowed. You 
deserve much credit for bringing the 
questions, as contained in your editorial, 
to light.” 
