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paid for by welfare agencies, service clubs and the 

 like. This was one of Bo&quot;b Marshall s favorite 

 policies when he headed the Division of Recreation. 



Pry: Weren t there pressures other than the increase of 

 campers that led to the establishment of recreation 

 in national forests? 



Granger: No. Recreation values were recognized from the early 

 days. The Dress of campers caused us to provide 

 camp grounds and picnic grounds where fires could be 

 safely built and safe water made available. 



Pry: Maybe you can comment on the development of the 



wilderness area policy and why Aldo Leopold s ideas 

 were finally adopted. 



Granger: Leopold was not exclusively responsible for the wil 

 derness idea. A good many of us saw the need for 

 such a program because of the rapid development of the 

 road program and other encroachments. 



Wildlife Management Policies 



It has been the policy and practice from the 

 beginning that wildlife, legally considered the 

 property of the states, would be managed under state 

 laws while the Forest Service would create or preserve 



