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The Biological Survey continues with its program of creat- 

 ing refuges for wild life (see page 217). It has the problem of 

 adjusting the game supply to our methods of land use. 



The Bureau of Public Roads has the job of seeing that the 

 farmers can get their produce to markets. Federal roads are 

 arteries through which flow a large portion of the products 

 of the land. Without these roads, the farmer is cut off from 

 his market. Thus, the planning and building of roads is an 

 important part of land-use planning. The Bureau of Public 

 Roads bases its decisions on where and what kind of roads 

 should be built upon detailed studies of present and future 

 needs of the people and industries served. 



THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS 



The best plans in the world are useless if they cannot be 

 carried out. Someone has to do the actual work of controlling 

 eroded land, building bird refuges, checking forest fires, and 

 rebuilding irrigation ditches. The tool which enabled the fed" 

 eral government's land-use planners to make their plans a 

 reality was in many cases the Civilian Conservation Corps. In 

 practically every land-use project the "CCC boys" were called 

 on at some point to dig or build or swing an ax. 



The Civilian Conservation Corps Camps were divided 

 among the various government land-use agencies to work on 

 their projects. Thus the government provided the labor which 

 was so necessary to start the long process of rebuilding the 

 foundation of American life, the land. 



If you could add up the effect of all these government activi' 

 ties and then subtract all the things which are destroying the 

 fertility of the soil and the security of the farmer, you would 

 have an idea of whether or not these government programs were 

 successful. Unfortunately, the answer is not just a matter of 

 simple arithmetic. It must be in terms of government, eco" 

 nomics, and soil fertility. So far as government is concerned, 



