National Forest Service Has Comprehensive Recreational Program 
 
 
  SThe policy of the National Forest Service in 
regard to the recreational development of national 
forests is well enunciated in the following excerpt 
from the chapter "The Forest for Recreation," in 
the Senate Document No. 12 (A national Plan for 
American Forestry [1933]): 
    "National Forests-The national forests are 
managed principally for the purpose of providing 
the greatest good to the greatest number in the long 
run. Under this policy the Forest Service recog- 
nizes that some lands are so valuable for recreation 
that no commercial exploitation should be permit- 
ted on them. On the other hand, on some of the 
lands the recreational values are safeguarded at 
the same time that the development of commodi- 
ties is permitted. In national forest recreational' 
development the stress is laid not in preserving the 
primeval but in providing healthy outdoor recrea- 
tion. Camping, the development of health resorts, 
and general use are encouraged. As a result the 
national forests, in addition to providing some su- 
perlative and primeval (natural) areas, provide 
wilderness areas, camp grounds, residence areas, 
and outing areas for millions of people. . ...' 
    Using the foregoing principles, it is very evi- 
dent that the administration of the Mount Olympus 
National Monument in the past and of the Olympic 
National Forest at the present time by the Forest 
Service is directly in keeping with the preservation 
and recreational use of government forest areas for 
the enjoyment of recreationists, as well as the 
proper use and development of commercial timber 
areas under forestry practice. 
    In 1926, F. W. Cleator, Recreation Examiner 
and Engineer for Forest Service, U. S. Del5artment 
of Agriculture, prepared a comprehensive program 
for the purpose of developing the recreational fea- 
tures and preserving the natural beauty of the Mt. 
Olympus National Monument and the Olympic Na- 
tional Forest (see map, page 5). This program was 
adopted in 1927 as the guiding policy of the Na- 
tional Forest Service in administering both the 
monument and the forest, and was completely in 
effect until June, 1933, when the Mt. Olympus Na- 
tional Monument was transferred to the National 
Park Service. Since that time its provisions have 
been continued with relation to the management of 
the national forest. 
     The Cleator Plan provides for the preservation 
of magnificent forest areas containing the finest 
examples of all species of the Olympic Peninsula's 
largest trees; for the construction of forest trails 
and of roads permitting travel through hundreds 
of miles of uninterrupted beauty, more miles of 
scenic grandeur than 
one could traverse in  Hundreds of miles of trail like this 
weeks. It has set aside thread the Olympic National Forest, 
tremendous primitive   offering pleasure and inspiration to 
                       all who will come.  Representative 
and wilderness areas, of the vast, timbered areas to be 
 
 
provided    numerous 
camp grounds an d 
 
 
shelters, and allotted certain areas for summer 
residences and resorts. 
    The Forest Service has demonstrated through 
the operation of the Cleator Plan that the beauty 
of the Mt. Olympus National Monument and the 
Olympic National Forest can be perpetuated for 
the enjoyment of the public under its administra- 
tion, and at the same time permit the proper de- 
velopment of the industrial resources; all for the 
benefit of "the greatest number in the long run." 
     The Wallgren Bill would eliminate 609 square 
miles from the Olympic National Forest (in addition 
to the 467 square miles already in the Mt. Olympus 
National Monument) destroying the effectiveness of 
the vitally important sustained-yield program of the 
State of Jlashington and the National Forest Service. 
The bill proposes to withdraw an area approximately 
half the size of Delaware, nearly one-fourth the size 
of Connecticut. The economic future of the majority 
of Olympic Peninsula residents would be adversely 
affected, with no advancement of scenic and recrea- 
tional values, or in the protection of wild life. (See 
page 6). 
 
 
preserved  under the education 
and recreational. program  of the 
National Forest Service.