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<br />221 t is noteworthy that District 2 at that time enclosed the National Forests located in Colorado.
<br />Wyoming, Nebraska, South Dakota, northern Michigan, and Minnesota. On May I, 1919, the Secretary
<br />of Agriculture approved a change in the official designation of the nine Forest Service Districts, the
<br />District Foresters, and other District Officers, so that "Region" and "Regional" superseded the term
<br />"District." U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Report of the Forester to the Secretary of
<br />Agriculture for the Fiscal Year Ended June 3D, 1930 (Washington: Government Printing Office,
<br />1930), p. 14.
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<br />23A. H. Carhart, "Your Scenic Attractions," The Bulletin: ~istrict 2, III (May, 1919), p. 12.
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<br />241ntarview with A, H, Carhart, October 9, 1964.
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<br />25Letter from Sherman to Carhart, July 10, 1919, Carhart Papers. The citizens of Pueblo used private
<br />funds to build the camps referred to by Sherman.
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<br />28 A. H, Carhart, "General Working Plan, Recreational Development of the San Isabel National Forest,
<br />Colorado," December, 1919, Carhart Papers. See also A. H. Carhart, "Municipal Playgrounds in the
<br />Forests," Municipal Facts, II (July, 1919). pp. 7,14, which heralded the fact that the Denver office of
<br />the Forest Service was the first to receive a recreation engineer and that "Colorado towns thus receive
<br />mountain parks."
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<br />27Carhart, Municipal Facts, II (1919), p. 1.
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<br />28Grace L. Nute's Caesars of the Wilderness (New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, 1943),
<br />describes early voyages by canoe and portage in this area.
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<br />29A. H. Carhart, "Preliminary Report, Recreation Reconnaissance, Superior National Forest, Minnesota,
<br />1919," Carhart Papers.
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<br />30 Ibid., p. 76.
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<br />31 Ibid" p. 77.
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<br />321bld" p. 78.
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<br />33/bld" p. 79.
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<br />34 Interview with A. H. Carhart, September 23, 1963. Paul J. Rainey brought the first motion pictures of
<br />African wildlife to the United States, and William McFadden loaned money to Earnest W. Marland for
<br />the first Marland oil well at Ponca City, Oklahoma.
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<br />36District Forester Allen S. Peck approved the plan by attaching a hand-written note to the proposal.
<br />Undated note to Carhart from Peck, Carhart Pape",.
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<br />36Congress Authorized the Secretary of Agriculture to grant permits "for the construction of summer
<br />homes, hotels, stores, or other structures, needed for recreation or publiC convenience," by Public Law
<br />63-293, approved March 4,1915. U. S.,Sratutl1sat Large, XXXVIII, ch. 144.
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<br />37A. H, Carhart, "Mamorandum for Mr. Leopold, District 3," December 10, 1919, Carhart Papers.
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<br />38/bid" p. 1.
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<br />391bid" PP. 1-2.
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<br />40lbld., p. 3 The difficulty of defining "stopping points" has remained a central problem.
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<br />41 Ibid., pp. 34.
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<br />42Handwritten note by Fred R. Johnson, Forest Examiner, District 2, Denver, July 29,1958, citing his
<br />diary and field notes for the period June 17, 1929, through June 27, 1929, Conservation Library
<br />Center, Denver Public Library.
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<br />43lbid.
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<br />44"Recreation Management Plan, White River National Forest," December 17, 1929, Regional Office,
<br />Ragion 2, U. S. Forest Service, Denver. It was formally approved by Chief Forester R. Y. Stuart March
<br />5,1932.
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<br />450enver Post, October 9, 1966.
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<br />46A. H. Carhart, "Recreation Plan, Superior National Forest, Minnesota, 1921," Carhart Papers.
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