39 2 Roosevelt Wild Life Bulletin 



THE RELATION OF FORESTS AND FORESTRY TO HUMAN 



WELFARE 



" Forests are more than trees. They are rather land areas on which are 

 associated various forms of plant and animal life. The forester must deal 

 with all. Wild life is as essentially and legitimately a part of his care as are 

 water, wood and forage. Forest administration should be planned with a 

 view to realizing all possible benefits from the land areas handled. It should 

 take account of their indirect value for recreation and health as well as 

 their value for the production of salable material ; and of their value for 

 the production of meat, hides and furs of all kinds as well as for the pro- 

 duction of wood and the protection of water supplies. 



" Unquestionably the working out of a program of wild life protection which 

 will give due weight to all the interests affected is a delicate task. It is 

 impossible to harmonize the differences between the economic, the aesthetic, 

 the sporting and the commercial viewpoint. Nevertheless, the practical dif- 

 ficulties are not so great as they appear on the surface." 



Henry S. Graves, 

 Former Chief Forester, U. S. Forest Service. 

 Recreation, Vol. 52, p. 236, 191 5. 



RESEARCH ON WILD LIFE 



" The discover of new species and races based upon the stud}' of preserved 

 specimens of game animals, has already progressed very far; but the more 

 attractive field which includes the habits of the game remains yet to a 

 great extent unexplored. This field is peculiarly open for investigation to 

 big-game hunters, and to all other men who go far afield and obtain first-hand 

 knowledge of the conditions under which the game animals live. The closet 

 naturalist, with his technical knowledge of the structure of animals, can be 

 trusted to perform the work of classification to a mathematical degree of 

 precision ; but we cannot obtain from him a trustworthy account of the be- 

 havior of animals in their natural environment, or learn from him the value 

 to the animals of the various structures or characteristics which he has shown 

 them to possess. Much knowledge regarding the habits of game is acquired 

 by the successful sportsman. Yet it is often infinitesimal in quantity com- 

 pared to what may be acquired if the outdoors observer will direct his investi- 

 gations along the broad lines covering the life history of the species with 

 which he comes in contact. To carry out such investigations successfully it 

 would be necessary to spend many hours and days, perhaps even weeks and 

 months, observing certain individuals or family groups of game. This is 

 quite beyond the limits of time allotted the average sportsman. Nevertheless 

 much can be learned by the collected evidence from many fragmentary 

 observations providing only these are accurate. A great mass of accurate 

 fragmentary observations will often spell far more progress in investigations 

 of this kind than the observations of a few trained individuals over an 

 extended period of time." 



Theodore Roosevelt and Edmund Hellep. 

 Life Histories of African Game Animals, 

 Vol. 1, pp. vii-viii, 1914. 



