. St. Nicholas [serial]. IN nil-; MA NAIHINAI. I-(jKI,.sl. I A1,1 F() KN I A. They are beginning to become natural parks forrecreation and life in the open. Millions ofhealth and pleasure seekers can enjoy themthrough the generosity of the Government, asshown by the records made by the forest the rangers have extended the hand ofwelcome to a large number of visitors to thenational forests. In 1912 they included 231,000campers and hunters; 190,000 guests at hotels andresorts; 1,085,000 day visitors, picnickers, andothers, aggregating 1,506,000 visitors. These guests must
. St. Nicholas [serial]. IN nil-; MA NAIHINAI. I-(jKI,.sl. I A1,1 F() KN I A. They are beginning to become natural parks forrecreation and life in the open. Millions ofhealth and pleasure seekers can enjoy themthrough the generosity of the Government, asshown by the records made by the forest the rangers have extended the hand ofwelcome to a large number of visitors to thenational forests. In 1912 they included 231,000campers and hunters; 190,000 guests at hotels andresorts; 1,085,000 day visitors, picnickers, andothers, aggregating 1,506,000 visitors. These guests must not only be protected by 492 THE LOVE FOR THE OUTDOOR LIFE [Apr., the rang-ers, but they must 1)e provided for, tosome extent. J^he number of jjcrsons who spendtheir summer vacations within the national for-ests is increasing so rapidly, says the forest ser-vice, that the question of furnishing suitable pas-turage for their saddle- and pack-animals is be-coming a problem. Campers naturally seek a. spot where water is close at hand and wherehorse feed is abundant, that their stock may notbe tempted to steal away in the night in searchof more attractive pasturage. In order to providesuch places, the forest service must set asidelimited areas from which sheep and cattle areexcluded. Tn many instances, particularly in theState of California, the service and the stock-raisers h-dve cooperated in constructing smallI)astures for the use of tourists, who have thusbeen enabled to give their animals choice andsafe forage without any cost or inconvenience. The aggregate acreage of forest land set asidefor the use of campers is considerable, and it hasa]3preciably reduced the amount of land availablefor the pasturage of sheep and cattle; but pre-sumably the loss is more than offset by the addedenjoyment of the visitors to the forests. Thereis this difference, however; stock-raisers pay afee for grazing their sheep or cattle, while thecampers secure their pasturage free. A series of maps of
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