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 To maintain our forests so that they will protect game 

 and fish life and best serve as a health resort and playground. 

 To secure more equitable taxation of forest land. 

 To take an active part in securing proper legislation 

 necessary for forest conservation. 



Forestry organizations of this type, if properly organized 

 and administered, pro vide a common ground where each of the in- 

 terests may come to a better conception of the needs of the other, 

 and of the relationships which make them inter dependant. Only when 

 there is coordination of effort between all related interests can 

 there be formulated and effected, broad and coiaprehensive State- 

 wide or National forest policies. Only with the development of 

 this spirit of cooperation and unselfishness, and its extension 

 to embrace all natural resoujoes, can there be effected a National 

 and International policy which will truly serve the greatest good, 

 to the greatest number, for the longest time, and meet the demands 

 of conservation in its highest sense. 



Summary 



The purpose of this paper has been to show that a forest is 

 not put to complete use until its recreational possibilities are 

 fully developed. The term recreation is employed to include all 

 "Che uses made of the forest by those who seek it for their plea- 

 sure out-of-doors, or for their health. 



That the wild life in the forest should be considered in 

 the plan of management is brought out by the consideration of ths 

 forest as a community in which animals smd plants alike have a 



