When the U.S. General Accounting Office dispatched its investigators onto Forest Service land, the assignment seemed typically dull: a survey of mining claims. But last week the investigators returned to Washington pop-eyed and aghast at all the things in the forest that cannot be seen for all the trees.
In Idaho national forestland they found a week-end nudist camp. In Arizona, a brothel had existed for eight years while Government lawyers struggled with a tricky point: Does a brothel satisfy federal requirements to hold a mining claim?
In California, only 30 of the 3,000 shacks, homes, cafés, rock museums, orchards and summer camps...