Show ROADS FOR FORESTS the office of public roads of the de apartment part ment of agriculture is to operate with the forest service in drawing up plans for comprehensive systems of roads and trails on national forests for the last two ears congress has provided funds for permanent improve ments on national forests and a large part of the money thus made available has been and is being used for road and trail building the amount is too small however in comparison with the total area of the forests to make possible adv mole than a small beginning with thicker settlement and increasing use of the forests good roads will become corp morp and more a crying necessity the object of securing the help of the office of good roads is to make the take the line that will not merely serve tern convenience but also count for most in the end by building each ear with le ference to a carefully worked out plan the danger of effort will be escaped during the present summer an engineer of the office of roads will go 0 er the ground on several of the forests and draw up plans which will be submitted to the forester and will server to guide subsequent work where the roads planned for cannot be built trails will so to as possible be mide to follow the courses laid out with the expectation tha later they will be colv arted into roads the roads trails telephone lines and fire lines al read constructed on national forests are proving of great value both in the work of fire protection and in serving the convenience of the public the further this work can be carried the geater will the usefulness of the forests to the regions |