24 PROBLEMS IN WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



Land owners under trespassing laws may in most states 

 prohibit access to their property for hunting, while exclusive 

 clubs have leased many desirable stretches of water. Thus 

 the casual hunter or fisherman of limited financial resources 

 has been forced to travel further and further afield for his 

 sport and recreation. That this condition has become men- 

 acing in some of the more thickly populated sections, is indi- 

 cated by the action of the state of Connecticut in leasing 

 private streams for public fishing purposes. It can be safely 

 assumed that this trend towards decreasing the amount of 

 land open to the public for sport will be reversed under the 

 new land-planning program, thus remedying a situation that 

 threatens to become serious. 19 



Difficulties Inherent in Land Planning: Although the 

 writer is in general accord with the theory of land planning, 

 he recognizes the existence of certain difficulties inherent in 

 the program. A frank discussion of these difficulties is 

 perhaps the best method of proceeding to their solution. 



Assuming that agricultural production is to be balanced 

 with demand, how is " demand" to be determined? Does 

 it mean the actual quantity of agricultural products the 

 people in the United States can consume, or does it mean 

 the quantity the nation is economically able to buy? The 

 reduction of crops while many people are in want is a policy 

 that makes one pause and question. The agricultural lead- 

 ers apparently, taking a pragmatic view, interpret " demand " 

 merely upon the basis of the probable quantity that will sell 

 at a price sufficiently high to pay the cost of production plus 

 a reasonable profit for the farmer. Whether this is a satis- 

 factory answer remains to be seen. 



19 See memorandum prepared by U. S. Bureau of Fisheries for U. S. 

 Forest Service on Fishery Management in Forest Waters of the United 

 States, dated November 28, 1932. 



