WHO MUST DO WHAT 



Natural resources can rarely be dealt with as separate 

 entities. The forest resource is no exception. Everything 

 done within the forest influences the environment. In some 

 cases the influence is detrimental; in other cases, bene- 

 ficial. 



The quality of our basic natural resources—air, water, 

 soil — as well as the quantity and quality of our secondary, 

 or renewable natural resources — forests, ranges, fish, wild- 

 life — are profoundly affected by forest management practices. 



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Although the forestry profession was an early, and some- 

 times only, advocate of natural beauty, soil erosion pre- 

 vention, proper grazing practices, abundant wildlife habitat, 

 clear streams, and vigorous forests, much attention presently 

 is being paid the other side of the coin. Some forestry 

 practices have had adverse affects on soil stability and 

 stream purity. Burning forest slash to reduce fire hazards 

 and prepare proper seed beds for forest regeneration has 

 brought on storms protesting air pollution. Modern forest 

 harvest practices, new forms of forest pest control, have not 

 always produced their good results by methods altogether 

 acceptable by a watchful public. 



-Ill- 



