Camps for the Unemployed in the Forests of California

Abstract This article is more than a mere description of what one state is doing to alleviate the distressing unemployment situation. In it lies the germ of an idea that can be developed to proportions of great national social benefit. The forests afford an ideal reservoir of work that can be tapped with very little effort in an economic emergency. Indeed, since unemployment exists to some degree even in prosperous times, the managers of public forests might well regard unemployment relief one of their duties and so plan their improvement projects to give work to worthy jobless men willing to work for their food and shelter.