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Excerpt from Trends, 1984, Vol. 21: Vandalism Vandalism has become a perennial drain on the budgets of park and recreation agencies throughout the United States. Nationally, the cost to these departments because of vandalism has been estimated to be over $500 million a year. Too often the actions of park visitors sometimes as recreators, frequently as trespassers - cause damage to the environment, facilities, equip ment, and areas which have been entrusted to public park and recreation agencies. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.