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Land Planning Report 



Table II. — Needed additions to the national forests for production 

 and management of wildlife 



Table III. 



-Privately owned lands within national forest and 

 purchase unit boundaries 



and improved. (See map sho^ving winter range and 

 game-refuge areas, fig. 2.) 



Privately Owned Land 

 As a Habitat for Wildlife 



Two classes of land are of interest to the Forest 

 Service in connection with the discussion of the use 

 of private lands for the production of wHdhfe: (1) Pri- 

 vately owned lands intermingled ■with national forest 

 lands, and (2) privately owned lands intermingled with 

 the public domain. Table II hsts the areas in class (1). 



This 37,000,000 acres of privately owned land witliin 

 the exterior boundaries of national forests and pur- 

 chase units includes the 19,000,000 acres listed in 

 columns 1 and 2 of table no. II as land needed for 

 additions to the national forests. The remaining 

 18,000,000 acres will largely remain in private owner- 

 ship. These lands are, by and large, of similar value 

 and importance in wildlife production as are adjacent 

 national forest lands. That is, on these lands wildlife 

 may be coordinated with other private land uses, such 

 as grazing, agriculture, timber production, mining, 



and recreation. The degree to which these inter- 

 mingled private lands will produce wildlife is de- 

 pendent upon the emphasis placed by the owners on 

 this use as compared with other uses, and upon the 

 degree of control or wildhfe management exercised 

 thereon. 



Within western game ranges, but outside national 

 forest boundaries, there is an estimated total of 55,- 

 000,000 acres of land, of which 13,000,000 acres is 

 public domain on which the wildlife use should be 

 considered of high priority. An additional 8,000,000 

 acres of public domain is less important for wildlife 

 usages, but necessarj'' to a full coordination of uses 

 both inside and outside national forests. 



The situation with respect to tliis 55,000,000 acres of 

 intermingled private and pubhc domain lands is quite 

 analogous, in at least one respect, to the 167,000,000 

 acres of national forests, with 37,000,000 acres of inter- 

 mingled private holdings. The 55,000,000 acres is 

 largely suited to the production of wildhfe, in coordina- 

 tion with other land uses. A high degree of integration 

 of uses, fully coordinated and sustained long-time 

 programs, and definite and decisive execution of plans 

 are necessary to bring about complete development and 

 utiUzation of the wildlife resources on these lands. 



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