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tinent at this time. In it, wild life is considered primarily 

 as coming under that use of the forest which contributes to its 

 value for recreation. 



The term recreation, in a hroad sense, as it has come to he 

 used in forestry literature, includes all the uses that may he 

 made of the forest by those who seek the rest and change of en- 

 vironment which it affords. Thus defined, recreation includes 

 not only the use made of the forest by those who visit it on holi- 

 day trips of longer or shorter duration, but as well its use for 

 the restoration of health. Those who frequent the forests are act- 

 uated by many motives. Some require elaborate conveniences. Others 

 are impelled by the call that demands large stretches of wilder- 

 ness, free from roads or other artificial works of man. Those of 

 artistic temperament seefc the stimulation that comes from aesthetic 

 appreciation of natural beauty, while a very considerable number 

 of persons are drawn to the forest by their interest in one or 

 another form of sport. It is because the birds and the mammals 

 of the forest and the fish in the forest streams, are more often 

 thot of in connection with the recreation that is afforded so many 

 persons by hunting and fishing, rather than in terms of food or 

 fur value, that wild life has come to be classed under the recrea- 

 tional rather than the supply use of forests. This is frankly 

 an arbitrary assignment, dictated by convenience, but it has one 

 justification, namely that when viewed from this angle the per- 

 petuation of wild life assumes more importance than it might have 

 elsewhere, especially when an interest is created that leads to 



