Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1920 — Urges Parks for the People. [ARTICLE]

Urges Parks for the People.

Recreation has an important place in new movement to enlarge the system of federal and state forest reservations and parks and to acquire woodland parks for municipalities, says the American Forestry Magazine of Washington. D. C. While the occasion for such reservations is frequently the protection of watersheds, timber production, or other public benefits, all of the areas afford opportunities for outdoor recfeation. Equally true it is that recreation has an important place in the demand for a large program of road improvement and extension.