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forward development of recreation utilities on their merits and 

 by the best known means. 



The inevitable conclusion from these considerations is that the 

 Park Service be entrusted with the care of large and important 

 areas where the preservation of unique landscape values is of 

 paramount importance and where recreation is the exclusive 

 utility ; but that areas in which several utilities, including recrea- 

 tion, are to be administered should properly be assigned to the 

 charge of the Forest Service. Such a policy would be intelligible 

 and practical, and can be carried out by the organizations now in 

 the field. 



Within the Forest Service organization another serious problem 

 now emerges. As soon as it becomes clear that recreation is an 

 important and a permanent utility upon the 

 A Perennial Forests and that it must be administered on 

 Problem its merits in- fair comparison with timber pro- 



duction, watershed protection, grazing and 

 other utilities, it becomes clearly necessary to provide the methods 

 whereby the varying (and sometimes conflicting) claims of these 

 several utilities may be adjudicated. The Forest Service has 

 already developed intensive studies in land classification which 

 lead in this direction. This classification of lands as to their 

 uses may easily be carried farther and may be made to include a 

 consideration of recreation values. 



But conditions change from year to year. An adjustment 

 which is fair to all interests now may not be wisest under the new 

 conditions 10 years hence. We seek a moving equilibrium. In 

 short, the Forest Service needs, within its own organization, a 

 committee on forest utilities which shall constantly endeavor to 

 secure the fullest development of all the resources in the National 

 Forests. Before this committee all questions of recreation uses, 

 landscape protection, and their like will be determined in fair 



