!6 PROBLEMS IN WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



What Land Planning Means: The term "planning" taken 

 alone means all things to all men. To one it means plan- 

 ning his household needs, to another his business affairs, to 

 a third his vacation. But when applied to land, planning 

 means the adoption of policies which will so order the 

 future use of the land that its natural resources will be con- 

 served and what it produces balances with consumption in 

 terms of national and world economy. Two concepts, there- 

 fore, are involved in land planning: one, the use of the 

 land so as to get the most out of it considering its physical 

 features and its relation to other land areas and, second, the 

 use of the land in such a way that its products will answer 

 the various needs of the nation. In other words, land plan- 

 ning means administration of the natural resources of the 

 nation to meet its social and economic needs. 



Unbalanced Production Showed the Need of Land Plan- 

 ning: It was the latter of these two concepts; i. e., balanc- 

 ing production to meet the economic needs of the nation that 

 attracted attention to the need of land planning. The con- 

 servation groups for many years had been striving to arouse 

 public opinion to the necessity of taking steps to conserve 

 the nation's natural resources with only moderate success. 

 Now their program was taken over as part of a larger 

 land plan. 



The depression which had affected some phases of agri- 

 culture ever since the War spread over industry as well in 

 the years 1929-32. In part, it was attributed to the pro- 

 duction of more agricultural products than could be sold at 

 a price sufficiently high to pay the farmer a fair return on 

 the capital and labor invested in them. As a result, farm 

 income went down, and with it the purchasing power of the 

 farmer for industrial products. At least, this was an ex- 



