98 MISC. PUBLICATION" 9 0, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 



vey of the yarious Federal and State game and fish laws, published 

 in the Farmers' Bulletin series of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture. 



Hunting from an airplane or shooting from an automobile or 

 highway is prohibited. Aliens are not permitted to hunt or fish in 

 Utah. 



Description of the game preserves and copies of the fish and game 

 code of Utah may be obtained from the office of the State fish and 

 game commissioner. 



RECREATIONAL RESOURCES 



Three different classes of recreation areas are found in Utah — 

 national parks, national forests, and national monuments. 



According to a resolution adopted unanimously by the National 

 Conference on Outdoor Recreation (6) called by President Coolidge 

 in May, 1924 : 



The national parks system consists of permanent national reservations pro- 

 tecting inviolate those wonderful or unique areas of our country which are 

 museums representing the scenery and principal natural features of the United 

 States available in our great heritage of animate and inanimate nature; that 

 these parks must be protected completely from all economic use; that their 

 scenic qualities should represent features of national importance as dis- 

 tinguished from those of sectional or local significance; and that they must be 

 preserved in a condition of unmodified nature. 



There are two national parks in Utah, viz, Bryce Canyon and 

 Zion, and they represent wonderful and unique scenery of national 

 importance. 



On the other hand, the above-mentioned conference stated : 



National forests are areas set aside to protect and maintain in a permanently 

 productive or useful condition lands unsuited to agriculture but capable of 

 yielding timber or other general public benefits, and thus all resources of 

 national forests, including recreation, should be developed to the greatest 

 possible extent consistent with permanent productivity in such a way as to 

 insure the highest use of all parts of the area involved. 



While the national forests are created primarily to conserve the 

 timber and stream flow, many sections of value for recreationa I pur- 

 poses are included within their boundaries. This value is recog- 

 nized and national-forest management seeks to conserve it and make 

 it usable. Certain national forests containing recreational resources 

 located near centers of population, such as along the Salt Lake 

 Valley, are intensively used. The large area and wide distribution 

 of the national forests make them valuable recreation areas for 

 many localities. 



The 10 national forests which are wholly or partly in Utah are : 

 Ashley, Cache, Dixie, Fishlake, La Sal, Manti, Minidoka, Powell, 

 Uinta, and Wasatch. 



National monuments are designated areas of land owned by the 

 United States on which are found historic landmarks, historic and 

 prehistoric structures, or other objects of historic or scientific inter- 

 est. Some of them are located within the national forests. There are 

 six national monuments in Utah — National Bridges, Rainbow Bridge, 

 Dinosaur, Hovenweep (part in Colorado), Arches, and Timpanogos 

 Cave. They, too, are areas of recreation as well as of scientific or 

 historic interest. 





