200 OUR USE OF THE LAND 



forest land is to supply timber and summer gracing lands, pro' 

 tect watersheds, provide recreation, and protect wild life. 



MULTIPLE USE ' 



One major problem of the Forest Service is to see that the 

 various types of land will yield the highest use value. In the 

 Lake Tahoe region, for instance, there are a great many summer 

 houses on forest land. It is also a region in which the Forest 

 Service permitted sheep-gracing. The residents in the summer 

 houses didn't like to have the sheep around. The Forest Service 

 had to decide in that case which was the higher use, gracing or 

 recreation. The people who had built the summer houses had 



THE ROLE OF THE FORESTS 



ncroeiM STATISTIC* 



A forest is not merely a collection of trees. It serves many purposes. It protects 

 the land, helps to support the balance of nature, and supplies us with valuable 

 goods and human values. 



invested a considerable amount of money in them. On the other 

 hand, the sheepherders depended on adequate grazing lands 

 to earn a living. In the end the sheepherders were moved to 

 another area. 



Other problems of multiple use come from the necessity of 

 deciding whether or not an area should be cut, saved for wild 

 life and recreation, or turned into a wilderness area. The only 



