54 A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



So far as can now be foreseen, the area which will probably be 

 needed primarily for forest recreation, including 11 million acres 

 already withdrawn from timber use, is: 



Acres 



Superlative areas 3, 000, 000 



Primeval areas 9, 500, 000 



Wilderness areas 10, 000, 000 



Roadside areas 4, 000, 000 



Acres 



Residence areas 6, 000, 000 



Outing areas 11, 000, 000 



Total _ 45,000,000 



Campsite areas 1, 500, 000 



ADEQUATE PROVISION FOR FOREST WILD LIFE 



An adequate forest wild-life program must, among other things, 

 obtain the best development and use of forest wild life as a product 

 of the land in proper coordination with other products and services, 

 make it possible for wild life to meet aesthetic, scientific, and other 

 social services, and preserve the American hunting tradition. What 

 is most needed to obtain these ends is forest wild-life management. 



Upon suitable management depends the restoration and main- 

 tenance of wild life in a normal balance as between species and with 

 other forest resources, distribution into proper environmental con- 

 ditions, the preservation of species now threatened with extinction, 

 and sustained yield of the wild-life crop, particularly of game and fur 

 bearers. 



The unification of wild-life and forest-land management is a second 

 essential requirement of a program. Unification is made difficult by 

 the fact that, in general, control of game is in the State while the 

 ownership and control of the land and other forest resources with 

 which wild-life management must be coordinated may be private or 

 Federal as well as State. 



Unification can be accomplished on privately owned lands by com- 

 pensating the owner directly or indirectly for producing game crops. 



On national forests and other Federally owned lands the working 

 out of satisfactory arrangements constitutes an important but still 

 unsolved problem. 



The third requirement in a forest wild-life program is adequate 

 provision for public hunting grounds. This requirement can be met 

 by the program of public acquisition of forest lands recommended in 

 another program. 



Still another requirement is the establishment in all States of active 

 nonpolitical game commissions with full authority to regulate seasons, 

 bag limits, license fees, closed areas, and other phases of wild-life 

 management. 



The area of forest land in the United States is large enough fully 

 to meet all wild life requirements. 



The provisions needed in an adequate program for fish in forest 

 waters are in general similar to those for mammals and birds in 

 management, unification of control, public fishing grounds, and 

 active nonpolitical game commissions with fuh 1 authority. 



A proposal of the Bureau of Fisheries for the expansion of a fishery 

 survey begun in the western national forest regions requires special 

 mention. One purpose is the development of a national policy for 

 stocking national forest and other public domain waters. 



Another needed measure is the coordination of the activities of the 

 various agencies of the Federal, State, and local governments dealing 

 with the fish problem into a general program. 



