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Show RECREATION IN THE FORESTS The Forest Service is extending to the public this season a most cordial invitation in-vitation to make full use of the unsurpassed unsur-passed recreational features of the national forest. Good roads, trails, bridges and telephone tele-phone lines, with assurance of adequate protection against fires, are steadily opening up and impressing upon the mind of the American traveler, seeking pleasure and rest from business cares and worry, the advantages of the scenic grandeur, health-giving climate, and the hunting, fishing and camp life opportunities op-portunities which the national forests afford. As a result, indications point to the enjoyment of the nation's forests for-ests by greatly increased numbers of vacation and recreation seekers this summer. In urging the people to spend their recreation periods in the forest this year, everything feasible is being done by the forest service to make vacations vaca-tions so spent wholly pleasurable to the visitors, and to place at their disposal all the assistance and advantages which the service has to offer through its organization or-ganization and equipment. Specially protected camp sites are offered, the forests are liberally posted wiih distance, direction and location signs, the thousands of milesof government govern-ment telephone line are of free access to the public, and the field organization in read and anxious to render everv possible courtesy and assistance to assistance as-sistance to the camper and traveler. One of the seasons's invocations in the Intermountain Forests District, comprising the national forest of Southern Idaho, Utah southwestern Wyoming and Nevada is the adoption of the tourist register Bystem. At points where the main roads enter the Forests the traveler will find a mounted box beside the road, and over it, mounted mount-ed on a post, a sign bearing this or a similar message: CAMPERS ATTENTION By Registering Here Your Name, Address and Destina-ation,Important Destina-ation,Important Messages May be Forwarded and Other Assistance Assis-tance Rendered by Forest Officers. Offi-cers. The sole object of the forest service in adopting this system is to render the most helpful and efficient service to the people traveling into the Forests. The registers are visited regularly by that general utility man, the Forest Ranger, and with the information furnished by the register, he can forward important messages from the outside world, which may reach him over the phone or otherwise, other-wise, with accuracy and dispatch to the parties concerned. Many a camper would much more heartily enjoy his sojourn so-journ in the mountains if he could feel that he would not be entirely cut off from important business affairs, and, his relatives or friends in case of sick-; ness, accident or something of that kind. This is exactly what the register system accomplishes for him, with the help ol the extensive government phone lines, which in all cases are connected with the Bell system or other commer cial lines. Wherever, in the intermountain forests, for-ests, it suits the camper's fancy to go, he will find climate to his liking, scenery scen-ery unexcelled, fish and game in plenty, usable roads, trails and communication systems, healt' -'wilding air and sunshine and freedom from annoying restrictions. The only request from the services are that the tourist and camper exercise every reasonable precaution with fire in the woods, putting out any fire dis covered or notify the nearest forest officer, and that for their own sake as as wen as mat ui KLuciD, wy . the simple rules of mountain sanitation and help protect the mountain streams from pollution. Come, use and enjoy, but do not injure or destroy, is the substance of the call from the forest for visitors this season. |