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 

 vievy 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 difference 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 discovery of new species and races based upon the study of pre- 

 served 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 

 behavior 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 

 compared to what may be acquired if the outdoors observer will direct his 

 investigations along the broad lines covering the life history of the species 

 with which he comes in contact. To carry out such investigations success- 

 fully 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 snortsman. I\ever- 

 theless much can be learned l)v the collected evidence from many frag- 

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

 accurate fragmentary observations will often spell far more progress in in- 

 vestigations of this kind than the observations of a few trained individuals 

 over an extended period of time." 



Theodore Roosevelt and Edmund Heller. 



Life Histories of African Game ^Inimals, 



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



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