vi CONTENTS 



IV THE GRASS LANDS 140 



America Discovers the Range; The Cattle Kingdom; The 

 Scramble for Water and Grass; The pestruction of the 

 Range; The Owners of the Range; Problems of Range 

 Ownership; The States and the Range; The General 

 Land Office and the Range; The Effect of Range Destruc' 

 tion on Watersheds; The Collapse of Range Economy; 

 State Solutions of Range Problems; Federal Control of 

 Range Land; Supervised Loans; Forest Service Control 

 of Range Land; The Soil Conservation Service; The Di' 

 vision of Grazing 



V THE FOREST 181 



Timber Depletion; Sustained Yield Management; Con' 

 trol of Forest Fires; The Toll of Insects and Disease; 

 Soil and Watershed Protection; The Forest and the Com' 

 munity; The Forests and Taxes; Markets and Uses for 

 Timber; The Forest Service; Multiple Use; Wild Life 



VI LAND FOR WILD LIFE AND RECREATION 205 



Wild Life and the Land; Wild Life and Forest Land; 

 Wild Life and Water; Marine Wild Life; Control of 

 Wild Life; Land Use and Wild Life; Hunting Laws; 

 International Regulation of Wild Life; Control of Water' 

 ways; The Bureau of Fisheries; The Valuable Fur 

 Bearers; Recreation Land 



VII MINERALS 233 



Minerals, the Basic Resource of Industry; Conservation of 

 Minerals; Federal Control of Oil Land; Taxes and Min' 

 erals; More Efficient Use of Minerals; Minerals and Mar' 

 kets; Transportation; International Aspects; Government 

 Regulation of Minerals 



VIII PLANNING 257 



Zoning; State Planning; Regional Planning Based on a 

 Single Resource; Economic Land-Use Planning; Over' All 

 Regional Planning; Tennessee Valley; A Plan for Plan' 

 ners 



BIBLIOGRAPHY 291 



INDEX 299 



