Show Forest Recreation Resources Survey is Now Completed Field work for the National I Forest Outdoor Recreation Resources Resources Re Re- sources Review was completed I the latter laller part of October ac according according ac- ac aC 1 cording to George L L. Burnett Durnell Forest Supervisor of the Manti- Manti LaSal National Forest The program was requested by Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress in June 1958 as a result of the great increase in recreation recreation I tion lion use of public lands during I Ithe the past years Recreation financing for the next 40 years will be based on this project It will affect ev everyone everyone ev- ev who uses our national forest It will affect you Mr Burnett Gurnett said The Review is a nationwide inventory to determine recreational recreational recreational needs for the next forty years The inventory is to be he i carried on by all government agencies concerned with t the h e management of public lands and the final report will be submitted submitted submitted submit submit- ted to The Recreation Resource Review Commission in the fall of 1961 Mr 11 Burnett stated Expected recreation use in inthe inthe inthe the future was determined by projections of present use and prospective population increases I Recreation on the national forests forests forests for for- ests has increased by leaps and bounds during the last ten years From 1955 to 1958 the use in increased increased increased in- in creased 50 per cent Recreation increases assumed by Operation Outdoors a program that started started started start start- ed in 1955 and projected needs to 1962 have already proved 24 per cent below the 1958 use At present camp and picnic ground use exceeds their capacity capacity capacity capa capa- city by 70 per cent During t the e summer crews have located potential recreation recreation recreation tion sites on the LaSal Manti-LaSal National Forest Office compilations compilations compilations of the field fieldwork work has al already already already al- al ready begun Rob Robert rt Entwistle landscape architect and project leader of the Review expects to have the project completed on the LaSal Manti-LaSal National Forest early in 1960 said Mr 11 Burnett n |