Above: This lad is off for a few days’ work away from camp. Boys
are employed on construction of forest-protection roads and trails,
slash disposal and other forestry work. There are 11 camps in B.C.

Right: There ts plenty of hard work but it is good work and some
of the boys will have an opportunity for permanent employment
with the Forest Service.

and trails, slash disposal to reduce fire
hazard and fight fires. Several of them
have been used by forest rangers on
compass work and surveying.

The boys are paid $3 a day, but are
only given 50 cents of that. The rest
is held back and credited to them.

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Go to Dances and Movies

They are given as much freedom
as boys in the regular camps. On
occasion they go to nearby dances or
movies. The forestry department also
has shipped in a projector and equip-
ment to show films in a small settle-
ment next to the camp.

The forest service feels it is getting

~a good dollar’s worth of service from

every dollar expended. In addition,
the youths are being given an oppor-
tunity to expend their energy, in-
genuity and enthusiasm on projects

essential to the economy of the
province.
Moreover, they are spending a

summer amid beautiful and peaceful
surroundings and learning a useful
vocation that will be in continuous
demand in this forested province.

Someone once said: “Man is at his
worst when pitted against his fellow-
men. He is at his best when pitted
against Nature.”

In all the forest services youth

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camps this summer there was a total
of nearly 150 boys. They all received
$3 a day plus board and transporta-
tion to and from their homes.

The idea of youth-use in conjunc
tion with the forest resource is not a
new conception by any means, but
previous projects of this nature (ex-
clusive of the first offenders’ camp
idea which was first done this year)
have unfortunately had their genesis
in a depression period.

The present development is dis-
tinctive in that it came into being in
1949, when employment was available

to all. ye >

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