| Show IN Fish fishlike fishlake lake and bryce canyon are favorites in intermountain region over half a million people enjoyed outings upon the national fore forets forests ts of the intermountain region last year according to a report compiled by the intermountain district office of the forest service at ogden practically half of these were transient tourists who passed through national forests only incidentally but the other half consisting of campers picnickers hunters fishermen summer home owners and guests at hotels and resorts upon the national forests may be counted as having really spent some time in recreation upon the national forest areas of this region visitors to the national forests are not registered in any way and these figures represent merely the best estimates of the rangers on the ground there is a fair increase in numbers over those reported last year the most popular forests still remain those which are arc most accessible as the wasatch close by salt lake valley with its total of campers and picnickers the near the yellowstone park which has a very heavy travel of transient tourists through it and the fishlake fishlike Fish lake forest which attracts unusual numbers of campers who enjoy the fishing there nevertheless the forests which have been previously rather inaccessible and slightly used for recreation have shown remarkable renial kable increase during the past year owing to the development of forest roads into the previously bously inaccessible accas ible back country which has brought many automobiles these loads coads are built primarily for the protection and better utilization of the national forest resources or to connect up tip isolated settlements their thair use by automobilists bent on recreation is purely incidental to their major values the hotel and resort business has grown very notably during the past year especially on the powell national forest where the establishment of accommodations at bryce canyon has developed a large use of this kind the automobile is by far the chief factor in the recreational use of the national nation al forest 90 per cent of the estimated number coming by this means |
