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2. Better training in game management of both State and Federal 

 personnel, and some enlargement of the State forces. 



3. Adequate plans of management for each natural unit, including 

 regulated kill by sexes and by topographical units. 



4. A competent nonpartisan game commission in each State, with 

 full authority to install regulations necessary to meet the needs of 

 wild life and the range. 



5. A clearer definition of the responsibility of Federal officers on 

 Federal land. 



6. Better provision for winter range at low elevations outside of 

 the national forests or feed. 



FISH 



Within the national forests there are about 60,000 miles of streams 

 and many thousands of lakes suitable for fish porduction. Better 

 and more roads, with an increase in auto travel, have greatly increased 

 the yearly demand on these waters. This results in a gradual de- 

 cline in the productiveness of most waters, even though extensive 

 stocking operations are carried on by the Bureau of Fisheries and 

 State fish and game commissions in cooperation with the Forest 

 Service. It is estimated that the yearly planting equals or exceeds 

 50 million fish. 



In cooperation with the Bureau of Fisheries, stream surveys are 

 now under way, and it is expected that complete plans for each stream 

 will eventually be developed, including stocking, rearing ponds, and 

 related measures for building up and maintaining this important 

 resource. 



MISCELLANEOUS USES 



A review of the almost endless list of miscellaneous uses of the 

 national forests provides an index of the well-nigh unlimited variety 

 of ways in which they lend themselves to economic enterprises or 

 pure enjoyment. There are apiaries and fox farms, artificial fish 

 ponds where trout are raised for market, cabins and courses for 

 skiing clubs, mineral springs developed for the ailing, trappers' 

 cabins, and branding corrals and counting pens used by stockmen. 

 Altogether there are 76 different sorts of uses under permit, a total 

 of 36,457 permits, which bring in around $300,000 each year to the 

 Treasury. 



NATIONAL FOREST PROTECTION 

 FIRE 



The steady downward trend of the curve showing acreage burned 

 is the most graphic proof of continuous progress in protection of the 

 national forests from fire. This has occurred in the face of a marked 

 and long-continued deficiency in precipitation in the regions of 

 greatest fire risk; a tremendous increase in human use of the forests; 

 recurring outbreaks of incendiarism, aggravated by unemployment; 

 and the growing hazard due to the steady increase in the acreage of 

 the hard-to-protect cut-over lands immediately adjacent to the 

 national forests and on some of the private lands within their bound- 

 aries. In the Douglas fir region of the Pacific Northwest the area of 

 cut-over lands burned is roughly 30 times that of the area of green 

 timber burned. 



