Figure 38.—Takh Lakh Lake, at the foot of Mount Adams, one of the many alpine lakes in the Cascade Range that attract summer 
recreationists 
be of such character as neither to lessen the areas’ 
suitability for recreational use nor to add appre- 
ciably to the region’s annual production. Reserva- 
tion of forest land from cutting for recreational use 
has reduced but little the region’s sustained-yield 
capacity. Under the Forest Service policy of 
multiple use practically the entire national-forest 
area is available for recreation. 
Wildlife 
In this region the forests support an abundance 
of wildlife and as a general rule wildlife use does 
not conflict with timber production or other 
forest-land uses. The use of forest land for wildlife 
has had little influence on commercial timber pro- 
duction here, and it is unlikely that any conse- 
quential areas of commercial timberland will be 
withdrawn exclusively for this use in the immediate 
future. 
It is possible to improve wildlife conditions in this 
region by a slight modification of current forest 
practice. Most of the streams and lakes are bor- 
dered by narrow strips of alder, cottonwood, and 
maple, with scattered conifers. If these strips 
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were preserved during logging the reduction in 
quantity of material produced would be small. 
This practice would greatly improve scenic condi- 
tions, result in better fishing conditions, and in 
addition constitute a first step in a region-wide 
program of erosion and flood control. Also, the 
strips of timber would serve as firebreaks and as a 
source of seed to reforest adjoining cut-over land. 
On many national-forest timber sales the edges of 
streams are left in a natural condition after logging: 
otherwise, there has been little effort on the part of 
public and private agencies to follow such a 
course. 
Hunting, indirectly, has conflicted with timber 
production, through the creation of high fire hazard 
in the fall months by the many hunters in the woods. 
A large percentage of the fires in this region are 
caused by hunters, some of them incendiary fires 
set allegedly to improve hunting conditions. 
Sustained- Yield Forest Management 
The preceding discussion of future timber sup- 
plies is based on the assumption that liquidation of 
