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This tendency to reserve large areas against cutting is due 

 largely to a popular misconception that forestry is detrimental to 

 wild life and to recreational use, and that cutting means devasta- 

 tion. 'I'he ultimate object of nature's method in a forest is to ob- 

 tain reproduction, and in order to make room for the development 

 of young growth, the mature trees which have served their purpose, 

 and immature trees which are overcome by competition for light, 

 food, and growing space, are slowly destroyed. True forestry 

 practice has the same objective, but it assists nature, to the profit 

 of man by cutting the trees when they are mature or overcrowded, but 

 while they are still sound and useful as timber. Forestry goes 

 further by selecting for reproduction species of trees which will 

 be most valuable to man. The recreationist with a true sense of 

 proportion and balance, sees more beaut^ir and wonder in reproduction 

 than he does in dead and down, overmature trees. 



The remainder of this paper considers the practice of forestry 

 as it affects wild life and recreation, a^d is designed to show 

 how forestry practice, which in some cases may be harmful to these 

 interests, may be modified to the advantage of all. It presupposes 

 that the interests of forestry, wild life conservation and recrea- 

 tional development, rffilize their interdependence and are willing to 

 cooperate more fully for the benefit of the whole, as well as them- 

 selves, by methods of forest management and policy, which will 

 accomplish this end. 



The methods suggested are based on the major premise that under 



that 

 normal conditions all forms of life are beneficial, and/Wature tends 



