510 A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Forest land in the West under Federal, State, county, and munic- 

 ipal ownership or control now approximates 150 million acres, out of 

 a total forested area of 214 million acres. This should be ample to 

 take care of the demands for public shooting grounds for big-game 

 species in Western States. A shortage of public shooting grounds in 

 some localities is, however, felt with respect to migratory waterfowl 

 and quail. The situation as regards quail has developed from the 

 depletion caused by overgrazing on public domain and other areas, 

 and a considerable part of the remaining good quail shooting is 

 restricted to private lands. This situation is felt particularly during 

 the low period of the quail-population cycle. The need for public 

 shooting grounds for these upland birds in the West can probably be 

 very adequately met by (1) consolidation and administration of public 

 domain areas, (2) the use of areas recommended for addition to the 

 national forests from the public domain for watershed protection and 

 other purposes, and (3) by development of the game resource on 

 these lands. 



The land area available for public shooting will probably never 

 exceed the requirements of the hunting public. Plans for wild life 

 and forest land management should provide the maximum available 

 area for this purpose. 



In general, all forest land is susceptible of use by one or more wild- 

 life species having economic or social value. The acreage of forest 

 lands so used must be dependent on the importance attributed to 

 wild life in making an evaluation of land resources as a basis for sound 

 multiple-purpose forest-land management. Without doubt, wild life 

 has sufficient values to be accorded a place in good land utilization 

 on most of the total forested area and has minimum values only in 

 exceptional situations where peculiar local conditions direct manage- 

 ment toward special objectives which eliminate the wild life return 

 or reduce it to an inconsiderable amount. 



FISHERY MANAGEMENT IN FOREST WATERS OF THE 



UNITED STATES 



By HENRY O'M ALLEY, Commissioner of Fisheries 



The forested areas of the United States, including public lands 

 under the control of the National Forest and Park Services as well 

 as those privately owned, constitute the most favorable habitat of 

 many of our valuable game-fishes as well as the habitat during early 

 life of some of the commercial anadromous fishes such as the salmon 

 and shad. A complete program of forest management, therefore, 

 logically includes a plan for managing the supplies of fish found 

 therein for the public good, assuring not only perpetuation of the 

 supply for the benefit of future generations but wise husbandry per- 

 mitting development of potential supplies and their fullest use for 

 the benefit of the present. 



In the following pages is presented a discussion of the place of 

 modern fish husbandry in the larger program of forest management, 

 prepared in response to a congressional resolution, in which is con- 

 sidered the influence of forests on fish life, the economic and social 

 values of fish in forest waters, present methods available for ade- 

 quately managing the fishery resources in the public interest, and the 

 means of carrying into effect such a program in forest areas. 



