WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:06.000 Since federal help for the creation and further development of recreation areas 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:10.001 became available through the Emergency Conservation Work Program begun in 1933, 00:00:11.001 --> 00:00:15.000 it has become obvious that there is a very definite factor in the park and 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.000 recreation movement which may be called park conscious. 00:00:18.001 --> 00:00:23.000 In some sections of the country, as in Minnesota, the public makes avid use of 00:00:23.000 --> 00:00:26.000 such outdoor recreational facilities as have been provided. 00:00:26.001 --> 00:00:31.000 And this very publicly expressed enthusiasm inevitably results in a more 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:32.001 rapid development of park systems. 00:00:33.001 --> 00:00:37.000 Indeed, the development of parks may be said to be in direct ratio to their use. 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.000 It is estimated that nearly a quarter million people visit eight of the principal 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:43.001 Minnesota State Parks during the three months 00:00:43.001 --> 00:00:45.000 which constitute each summer season. 00:00:46.000 --> 00:00:49.001 Parks near the large centers of population in which winter sports are possible 00:00:49.001 --> 00:00:52.000 are active throughout the 12 months of the year. 00:00:56.000 --> 00:01:57.000 [...] more information visit www.fema. gov www.fema.gov The settings are those 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:01.001 which induce complete relaxation and rest, settings in which nature can work her 00:02:01.001 --> 00:02:03.001 magic of mental and physical healing. 00:02:51.000 --> 00:02:55.000 Parks are a call to the people to rest and play in family groups. 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:59.001 A cure which has been seriously advocated for most of our social difficulties. 00:03:59.000 --> 00:04:03.000 Many of our emotions are instinctive. Certainly the thrill that comes 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:05.000 from a boat ride is one of these. 00:04:05.001 --> 00:04:07.001 It lasts from childhood to old age. 00:04:55.001 --> 00:04:59.001 In state parks in all parts of the country there are simple but adequate 00:04:59.001 --> 00:05:04.000 facilities for camping available. Sometimes for small charges, sometimes 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:05.001 for no charge at all. 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:16.000 I will leave the dust of the city street and the noise 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:20.000 of the busy town for the windy moor and the high hills and the peak 00:05:20.000 --> 00:05:22.000 stream flowing brown. 00:05:22.001 --> 00:05:28.001 I will keep my watch by the campfires where the white cliffs lean to the sea and 00:05:28.001 --> 00:05:34.000 dawn shall wake me with golden hands and the rain shall walk with me. 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:06.001 Fishing and golfing are the hobbies of more Americans than are any other 00:06:06.001 --> 00:06:12.000 pastimes. To the fishermen, the nationwide conservation and recreation movement 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:17.001 means more places to go, more vacation hopes fulfilled, more happiness. 00:06:18.001 --> 00:06:24.000 Protection and propagation of wild life are important parts of the program. Every 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:29.000 living thing, not just game in the popular sense, is considered and development 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:31.001 plans are drawn with this in mind. 00:06:32.001 --> 00:06:37.000 In the state parks alone, the Conservation Corps has built or improved more than 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:42.000 300 lakes or ponds. Many of these will be stocked with fish at regular intervals 00:06:42.000 --> 00:06:44.001 and those parts, blessed with natural bodies of 00:06:44.001 --> 00:06:46.000 water, will be given the same attention. 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:52.001 Minnesota needs few dams to form her glistening boots. Nature made them centuries 00:06:52.001 --> 00:06:58.000 ago, and today men go there from all corners of the country to rest and play in 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:00.000 this land of 10,000 lakes. 00:07:12.001 --> 00:07:16.001 State's laying the foundation for systems of parks will do well to exert every 00:07:16.001 --> 00:07:21.001 effort to so maintain and administer their recreation areas and so educate the 00:07:21.001 --> 00:07:25.001 people in their use that to them will come also the happiness of the new leisure, 00:07:26.000 --> 00:07:29.001 which is so precious in this land of the sky-colored walk. 00:07:30.000 --> 00:07:36.001 Thank you.