Pleasant Grove Review | 1958-02-20 | Page 1 | National Forest Recreation use Increases by 14% in 1957

National Forest Recreation Use Increases by 14 in 1957 National Forest recreation use in the Intermountain Region of the Fore9t Service increased 14 per cent during 1957, Regional Forester For-ester Floyd Iverson announced today. to-day. Besides the 7,620,000 visits to the 18 national forests of the Region, approximately 7,800,000 travel-through travel-through visits were reported on the National Forest highways. Campers and picnickers chalked up 4,380,000 visits toward the greatest great-est single class of national forest use. The tally for undeveloped areas and wilderness areas on the National Forests was 2,200,000 visits. vis-its. Picnicking, fishing, general enjoyment en-joyment and sightseeing as well as According to Mr. Smith, the dir-winter dir-winter sports were the primary purposes of the national forest recreation visitors. To meet the increasing number of visits to the national forests, the forest service has undertaken a construction program appropriately appro-priately named "Operation Outdoors." Out-doors." This program is to modernize modern-ize existing facilities and to provide pro-vide for the increasing number of visitors. During the year ending June 30, 1958, the Forest Service will have constructe d660 new family fam-ily units and modernized 1000 family fam-ily units in the Intermountain Region's 18 national forests in Nevada, Ne-vada, Utah, southern Idaho,, and western Wyoming.