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Show Utah gets most forest visits "One out of every ten visits to National Forests of the Nation Na-tion during 1961 occured in the Intermountain Region," Region Forester Floyd Iverson said today. to-day. "Of a record 104 million National Forest visits across the United States, 11,761,800 were to the 18 National Forests For-ests in western Wyoming, southern Idaho, Utah, Nevada, and eastern California." The Wasatch National Forest For-est in Utah received the most use on the basis of visitor days with 2,948,300. It was the second most visited National Na-tional Forest in the Nation. A recent compilation of figures fig-ures showed that the main interest in-terest on these lands was picnicking pic-nicking with nearly four million mil-lion visits for that purpose. Following closely were 2.7 million mil-lion sightseeing and "general enjoyment" visits. There were 1.8 million fisherman visits and just over a million camping camp-ing visits in Region 4. The average length of stay was a day and a half. The longest average length visit by category 4 days naturally to recreation residences. Wilderness Wild-erness visits followed closely averaging four days. Campground Camp-ground visits averaged 2 clays and the picnic visit averaged aver-aged a half day. Popularity of the major in- terest recreational pursuits occurred oc-curred in the following order: picnicking, general enjoyment and sightseeing, fishing, camping, camp-ing, hunting, winter sports, hiking and riding and canoeing. |