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the reservation of specified parts of the forest as refuges or 

 sanctuaEies, particularly during the breeding periods. 



This paper deals only with that part of the recreational 

 use of forests that concerns wild life. Further, it confines it- 

 self primarily to conditions found in the eastern United States. 

 The conclusions reached are particularly applicable to state 

 owned lands, altho the general principles set forth are pertinent, 

 with limitation or extension, to other conditions. The method 

 followed is to treat the various forms of wild life ty groups 

 rather than by specific forms, except where a concrete example 

 seems to be demanded. As regards forestry it proposes to treat only 

 of the broad principles, altho indicating in a general way methods 

 that might be used to secure closer cooperation between the prac- 

 tice of forestry and of wild life conservation. 



This paper was prepared at Cornell University under the 

 direction of Trofessor Halph S. Hosraer and I wish to record my 

 gratitude to him for the helpful and sympathetic advice and crit- 

 icism rendered thruout its progress, and to Dr. George C. Embody 

 for his valuable suggestions in regard to the portion dealing 

 with wild life. 



The Relationships between the forest and wild Life 



Trees require for their existence, certain more or less 

 definite conditions of soil, moisture, and climate. The spruce, 

 balsam, American larch, and paper birch are confined to the North 



