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 leg-itimately 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 

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

 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 esthetic, the 

 sporting and the commercial viewpoint. Nevertheless, the practical difficulties 

 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. 



THE NECESSITY FOR FIELD INVESTIGATIONS OF FISH 



" In considering the subject it is well again to call to mind that the first 

 essential necessary to maintain even fair fishing is this : All the work which 

 it is possible for the State and national hatcheries to do by way of planting 

 the waters should be supplemented by all the fish which may come from 

 natural reproduction, and it should be so pro\-ided by law that the fish have 

 every opportunity to spawn unmolested.'" 



'■ Experts have solved most of the problems connected with the business at 

 the hatcheries : but the field of investigation to obtain the best results in 

 planting game fish in wild waters appears to be still open, and theorists are 

 constantly discussing this feature in publications devoted to the interests of 

 sportsmen. 



" Here, then, is where the chief problem now lies, and it should not be 

 left to no\nces to decide. It is universally recognized as the one important 

 difficulty to overcome, and yet, strange to say, a majority of our leading fish 

 culturists seem to have given the matter little or no attention in the past. 

 They have devoted their entire time to solving hatchery- problems, and at last 

 these have been reduced to such an exact science that the experienced culturist 

 can now calculate in advance to a nicety his season's output and the total 

 funds required for its development. ... In the past it has been the 

 custom of culturists to assume that their full duty was done when thej' had 

 raised a large, healthy stock of fish for planting. But when we look for 

 permanent results and benefits from their work, it is certain that their task 

 was only half finished. In the future they must abandon the hatcheries to 

 their trained subordinates and seek the streams, ponds and lakes, and there 

 apply their talents." 



Hexry Chase. 



Game Propagation and Protection in 

 America, pp. 187-189; 1913. 



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