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 social value due to aesthetic development may be 

 worth more to the community than the revenue that 

 might have resulted had the forest been cut rather 

 than left standing. 



According to G. Frederick Schwarz 23 , w a 

 closer understanding of the economic principles of 

 forestry has spread among the people. .. .professional 

 foresters are beginning here and there to express 

 their ideas about the value of forest beauty and 

 its relation to economic forestry. .. .Then there 

 is a great deal that can be done by intelligently 

 considering the aesthetic values of the forest." 



StMARY AND CONCLUSION. 



In recapitulation then, the case for 

 forest reservations near urban centers seems to be 

 backed by numerous substantial arguments. 



First, not only is there a wide spread con- 

 servation activity, encouraging every phase of 

 constructive forestry, but the dreation of all 

 kinds of publie tracts, from the national forest and 

 huge state preserve, to the relatively small county/, 

 town, and village forests, is specifically advocated 

 by the federal Forest Service in answer to a part of 

 the timber depletion question. S^ rvj.ee > 



In the second place, it is the recreational 

 use of forests that has made the greatest appeal 

 to the public, and in the setting aside of forest 



