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Ko natural resource, however, should be held unused merely 

 for the purpose of maintaining this balance of relationships. The 

 demands for lumber require cutting of the forest. To ensure a 

 permanent supply entails management to this end. The birds and 

 mammals useful as food, game, or for their fur, should be harvested, 

 and the maintenance of their supply assured by management. The 

 fishes of the streams, both game and commercial, are a resource 

 to be used and managed, while the streams, which are influenced 

 by the forests, are necessary not only for fish but for health and 

 industry, and should, for these reasons, be controlled against 

 pollution and flood. 



The use of these resources may therefore be assumed to be 

 necessary and, within limitations, justified. Jiut use should be 

 so controlled that there will be a minimum of disturbance to the 

 other factors in the forest community, and that adequate provision 

 will be made for a future and permanent supply. Such treatment 

 constitutes wise or conservative use; it is also Qonservation in 

 its best sense. 



The purpose of this paper is to show that wild life is an 

 integral part of the forest community, to point out some of the 

 important relationships which exist between the forest and the 

 wild life therein, and to indicate how these resources may jointly 

 be used to the greatest advantage, with a minimum of disturbance 

 or loss xo either. Its preparation was prompted in part by the 

 increasing interest in the use of forests for recreation, which 

 makes a study of the relationships in the forest community per- 



