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AMERICAN FORESTRY 



of game and wild life and their waters 

 afford some of the best fishing in the 

 country. 



These various resources are protected 

 from depredation and injury and arc 

 utilized under careful and scientific 

 methods. The principal of coordinated 

 use guides the handling of the different 

 resources. Thus, in utilizing timber the 

 sources of water are safeguarded, and 

 the cuttings are so located that the fea- 

 tures of scenic importance are carefully 

 protected. Grazing is regulated in a way 

 to prevent damage to the watersheds ; 

 and also it is correlated with the per- 

 petuation and building up of wild life. 

 The recreation opportunities and the 

 wild life are regarded as important 

 natural resources to be protected, used, 

 and developed in correlation with' the 

 timber, grazing, waters, and minerals. 



Thus there are two classes of permanent reservations 

 side by side which are being used and developed for 



RICH INDIAN RELICS IN ALASKA 



The totem poles and old Indian dwellings are being protected on the Federal reservations. 

 Old Kassaan is of special interest, and it has been set aside as a National Monument to 



five double assurance of its preservation. It is located on Prince of Wales Island, in the 

 bngass National Forest in southeast Alaska. 



ALASKA TOTEM POLES 



Nothing can be more impressive than the old villages and burying grounds of the Indians, 

 tucked away in the primeval forests of the Alexander Archipelago, in Alaska. The day of 

 stealing these splendid tokens of a past period has happily passed, for they are now 

 carefully guarded by our National Government. 



recreation. A considerable part of the general public 

 today finds difficulty in distinguishing between parks 

 and forests. This is because in many 

 cases they are situated side by side in 

 rugged mountainous regions, with very 

 similar problems of administration and 

 ests of the same types, and having 

 similar prolbems of administration and 

 development. In fact, travelers often 

 find it impossible to determine the differ- 

 ence between a park and a forest on the 

 ground except by boundary signs and 

 survey lines. The most important 

 Natici.al Parks of course have some 

 feature of special interest, like a single 

 high mountain peak, a great canyon, 

 stupendous valley, or unique water fall. 

 Surrounding these features there are 

 usually areas which are very similar to 

 extensive areas in the adjacent National 

 Forests. 



In view of the fact that the physical 

 difference between the parks and the 

 forests is i'n many cases so slight, we 

 must look to the main differences in the 

 purposes and- policies of administration. 

 Previously there was a clear distinction 

 between the two classes of reservation. 

 It was generally accepted that a National 

 Park should be devoted wholly to park 

 and recreation purposes and that the 

 development of economic resources 

 should be excluded as inconsistent with 

 these supreme purposes. Areas on which 

 the resources should be used for the 

 industries would be retained in the 

 National Forests. 



