Abstract

In the Driftway

The article throws light on the forests and forestry preservation. For many years, to promote the use of forests by the public, the service invited and encouraged the building of hotels and roads with the result that last year 23,000,000 people used the national forests for purposes having to do with recreation. As a solution, the Forest Service proposes to set aside three types of woodland, to be preserved forever in their present state as natural areas, experimental forests, and primitive areas. The first two types will be left completely untouched and kept for the study of scientists. The primitive areas will be given over to recreational use and will consist of large tracts of forest land that have never been materially altered by either human or natural forces.