Of this number, some 2,500,000 are campers, fishermen and hunters.
[Illustration: A CAMPING GROUND IN A NATIONAL FOREST] The forests provide cheap health insurance to all who will enjoy what they offer in sport and recreation.

For example, over 1,000,000 vacationists visit Colorado's forests each year.

If each person spent but five days in the forests, this would mean a total of 5,000,000 days or 50,000,000 hours of rest and enjoyment.

Recreation at the beaches and amusement parks costs at least fifty cents an hour.

Applying that rate to the free fun which the people get out of the forests, in Colorado in one year the tourists, campers and fishermen gained $25,000,000 worth of pleasure from the forests.
The National and State Forests furnish summer homes for thousands of people who live in the neighboring cities and towns.