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comparison with other utilities. Such a committee would be 

 able to decide with respect to each unit of the Forest areas the 

 extent to which recreation might be permitted or encouraged, 

 whether it should be subordinate or paramount to grazing, timber 

 production, or watershed protection, and what assignment of 

 responsibility within the Service personnel would best meet the 

 needs of the area as weighed by the committee. 



Plainly such a committee should include some one with a liberal 

 and sympathetic knowledge of recreation and landscape values, 

 just as it would need men well informed as to timber values and 

 grazing values. Some such competent court is actually necessary 

 to the just development of recreation utilities on the National 

 Forests. Steps have already been taken to extend the w r ork in 

 land classification so as to meet these requirements. 



It has always been the policy of the Forest Service to employ 



men of special technical ability on the numerous problems arising 



_ ... in the management of the Forests. Thus 



Specially 



T jif men trained in technical forestry are placed in 



»r j » charge of sylvicultural operations, men expert 



in the cattle industry control questions of graz- 

 ing; while mining engineers, land surveyors, lawyers, entolmolo- 

 gists, and statisticians are employed for those investigations, 

 operations, and lines of administration in which they are severally 

 experienced. A considerable part of the success achieved by the 

 Forest Service has unquestionably been due to this policy. 



When we come now to recognize recreation as an essential and 

 inescapable Forest utility we can not be blind to the need of special- 

 ized service of another kind. It will be seen that the undertakings 

 actually in hand as enumerated in earlier sections of this pamph- 

 let (viz, trail location, planning and equipment of automobile 

 camps, picnic grounds, protection and development of scenic 

 reservations, game preservation, recreation activities in National 



