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he cannot afford to ignore the indirect value to the forest trees 

 of the presence of a normal population of wild life, which also can 

 Td« managed to yield a direct annual or frequently recurring harvest, 

 I'he forest trees constitute but a flaction of the direct value of 

 the forest. 



Consideration, in forest management, of the regulation of 

 stream-flow and of the recreational values is usually possible only 

 in publicly owned forests. The general policy governing the man- 

 agement of such forests is to reserve certain areas against cutting, 

 as along roads, trails, or water courses, and near other points of 

 special interest or value to the recreationist , as well as the 

 watersheds of important streams. 



The tendency to reserve areas against cutting has reached an 



extreme in New lorJc State, where, with a total area of 31,490,560 



' (9) 



acres, 1,998,516 are in State Forest Preserve. 'I'his constitutes 



6.3 per cent of the entire area of the State, or 16.6 per cent of 



the 12,000,000 acres classified as forest land, and the state is 



charged by an Article in the Amendment to the Oon^titution to keep 



this property forever as wild forest lamds, whereon no timber may 



be removed , destroyed , or sold. This is the situation in a State 



where 41 per cent of the total area is in forest land of whijch 62 



per cent contains material which is suitable neither for lumber 



nor pulp, and furnishes only fuel or acid wood*, where nearly 



50 per cent of the domestic newsprint production is centered, and 



where 85 per cenl(^li^f all the raw material for its important wood 



using industries now has to be imported from without the state. 



