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RECREATION WORTH ,500,000 Value Placed Upon Fun Derived from Use of the National Forests. WASHINGTON, D. C, February 4. Last year the national forests provided 7,500,000 worth of recreation to the people of the United States, according to a statement of Landscape Architect Frank A. AAaugh in his publication "Recreation Uses of the National Forests." just issued by the United Stales Department of Agriculture. The government charges no admission fee to these great recreation grounds, containing some of the finest hunting, fishing and camping places in the world; but if citizens had paid the minimum price demanded for wholesome recreation by commercial dealers in that commodity and willingly paid by the public the total would have reached the above amount. More than 3,000,000 people spent on an average not less than twenty-five hours in the forests, so that the number of hours of recreation was at least 75,000,000. A valuation of ten cents an hour equals the cost of a cheap movie. But the charge to the public for hunting or fishing, for visiting the wonders of the national monuments, for access to some of the finest scenery in the world, for nutomobiling and picnicking was nothing, a low price to pay for ,500,000 worth of recreation.
