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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry231917amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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SCENIC MARVELS OF SEVIER FOREST WE hear much these days of the scenie wonders of the National Parks, for the National Parks are well advertised; but we hear little, if anything, of the beauties of the National Forests, whieh, up until now, remain practically unheralded. The tourist who plans a western trip an-angcs his itinerary so as to take in the Yellowstone, Glacier Park, Crater Lake, the Sequoias, and the Yosemite in three weeks, or thereabouts, and returns home to speak wiseh' of St. Mary's Lake, going to the Sun Mountains, El Capitan, and the Geysers, and is satisfied that he has seen everything worth seeing. As a matter of fact he has skimmed only a Httle of the cream of the store of scenic wonders of the West. The National Parks comprise a few million acres of wonderful m o u n t a i n scenery and freaks of nature. They are well worth seeing, but let no man, having seen them, think he has seen all or even the best of the western mountains. The National Forests comprise some 150 odd million acres and are located along the main moun- tain ranges of the West from the Rio Grande to the Canadian line. They con- tain every pos- sible form of mountain scenery from the low, monoto- nous, rolling foothills, dotted here and there with pine, to the stupendous, chff- crowned peaks of the Uncom- pahgre or Coeur d'Alcne. Whether the tourist wishes to locate his camp in some
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valley by the sidi of a rushing stream, or to fight his way up along the hostile mountains to the jagged, windswept top; whether he desires merely the peaceful beauty of long, wooded slopes, or the soul-inspiring pano- rama of towering peak piled on towering peak, of rugged mountain and sheer precipice and endless ranges stretching away in the distance, he will find all his heart desires of such things on the National Forests. Nor does the charm of these mountain fastnesses lie solely in the wonderful views to be had. The hot springs of the Boise, Challis, and Sawtooth Forests in Idaho are remarkable and interesting. In hundreds of places there are geological freaks which are the delight of the scientist, while in many others the delicate and masterful coloring with which Na- ture has painted the canyon walls of some little- known creek is the despair and delight of envi- ous mortals who try unsuccess- fully to imitate her handiwork. Perhaps no better example of these varied attractions is to be found than on the Sevier Na- tional Forest, tucked away down in the southern part of Utah, and, ex- cept for the local population , known hardly to one person out of ten thousand. Aside from its importance in protecting the water-shed of the Sevier River, the waters of which are used se^^eral times over for irriga- tion, and for the summer range for the cattle Photograph by Arthur \V. Stevens. A VIEW OF THE TEMPLES OF THE GODS FROM THE BRINK OF THE CANYON , . , , ^, Theblackand white pictureofthisview on the Sevier Natioral Forest. Utah,cargive no idea of thfdelicatecoloring. aUQ SUeCp OI XnC Some of the pinnacles shown here shade from a brilliant red at the base through lighter red and pink to pure white u,. r,^„r^Uart^ quiet at the tip. nearoy rancners, 11

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