Excerpt from Forest Outings: By Thirty Foresters Whether it is a garden, a farm, or a forest, any piece of land yielding crops may also yield repose and joy. So it is with the millions of acres of our national forests. The pleasures these forests may give the people is the theme of this book. For the first white settlers of America the woods lay just beyond the fields or out the door. So it was with woods and other natural wild country all the way to the Pacific. Solitude in a land of marvelous beauty, with clean and shining rivers and an abundance of wildlife, was our natural pioneer heritage as we moved west. Wherever modern men go civilization follows and crowds them. Often men are driven into unnatural pursuits and actions not good for the land.

This account that 30 foresters have written takes you all over our country and shows you the natural wealth and beauty which still is ours. But it also shows many places where men in ignorance, haste, and covetousness have wronged and hurt their country. We see now that there is a new conquest to be undertaken, a new kind of pioneering to be done, a healing reconstruction from the ground up. It would be no true Forest Service publication if it did not sound this call. The men of this Service have been preaching and practicing conservation for more than a third of a century. I sometimes think we need more than ever, now, to refresh our spirits and renew our aims in the solitude of beautiful natural places. There is a natural completeness about outdoor occupations which we who have been forced indoors and penned in cities lack and miss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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