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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



ease the financial burden of the private owner and provide other 

 public wild-life benefits. A happy circumstance also is that good 

 management of the woodland and timber resources will contribute 

 in great degree to the welfare of wild life. 



FOREST LAND WHOLLY OR PARTIALLY CLOSED TO HUNTING 



Table 4 presents a classification by ownership of Federal forest- 

 land area wholly or partially closed to hunting. These areas, accord- 

 ing to the available information, amount to about 29 million acres, 

 or 5 percent of the total forest-land area of the United States. This 

 acreage includes some of the especially valuable game and wild-life 

 breeding grounds of the country, many areas suitable for fundamental 

 research and for obtaining basic facts regarding wild life, areas devoted 

 in part to the aesthetic values of wild life in its natural habitat 

 (notably the national parks and monuments). In addition to the 

 Federal lands, there is an indeterminate acreage of State, county, 

 and municipal forest land which would fall in the same category and 

 which would amount to several million acres. 



TABLE 4. Area of public forest land wholly or partially closed to hunting 1 



1 Areas given, particularly in West, include some nonforest land. These figures represent the best 

 estimates obtainable from available information. 



2 There are some State game refuges on forest lands on the public domain for which definite figures are 

 not available. 



3 Some areas included here open to regulated hunting. 



NOTE. There are some areas of Federal game preserves on forest land not within the national forests 

 or parks for which figures are not available. 



The areas in this table represent forest lands so far as data were 

 available, where special measures have been adopted for game pro- 

 tection and management by the Federal Government, and where 

 hunting in some cases may be allowed to meet management require- 

 ments. Areas in national parks and monuments, migratory bird 

 refuges, and other Federal wild-life areas, where hunting is prohibited, 

 are also included. 



Some areas of nonforest lands are included, in the West particu- 

 larly, where sufficient data were not available to afford a satisfactory 



