10 Recreation Uses on 



Hunting and fishing are perhaps the sports most typically 



associated with the Forests. In the great public forests of the 



Old World the rearing of game for food is often 



Game practiced on a large scale. The propriety of 



Preservation using our National Forests to multiply game 



for sport, for food, or for its own sake seems 



obvious. To these problems the Forest Service has already given 



considerable study. Specialists from the United States Biological 



Survey have also assisted materially in this field. 



Several large areas within the National Forests have been set 

 aside through State legislation and Federal proclamation as game 

 sanctuaries. In these areas various species of wild fowl, deer, 

 elk, and bison are protected at all times. Hundreds of square 

 miles adjoining the Yellowstone National Park are reserved in 

 this way for the pasturage and protection of the elk. In the 

 Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma is a very successful preserve 

 devoted especially to the buffalo. Here there is a considerable 

 herd of these animals, and they are thriving and multiplying in 

 a very satisfactory manner. 



Forest officers everywhere cooperate with other Federal officials 

 and with State and local authorities in stocking streams with 

 trout or lakes with other fish and in their protection under 

 State game laws. Indeed it is almost the rule that the local 

 forest rangers shall be also State game wardens and shall assist 

 everywhere in the enforcement of game laws. 



Some of the noblest landscape in the wide world is to be found 

 within the National Forests. No argument is 

 Scenic required to show that where such landscapes 



Reservations can ^ e preserved for human use without sacri- 

 fice of other interests they should be firmly 

 protected. And if in special areas this direct human value 

 of the landscape can be shown to outweigh other economic 



