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survey of land uses in the county and at community meetings are discuss- 

 ing the reports and formulating a long-time program of action for the 

 county. They consider what organizations can he utilized in solving 

 their particular problems - what changes should he made in the county to 

 make it a better place in which to live. These long-time county programs 

 strike at the root of their troubles and focus all efforts where they 

 will do most good. They clarify the objectives and correlate the effort 

 expended for community betterment. 



WILDLIEE CONSERVATION ON SUBMARGINAL LAND 



We confidently expect that land-use planning will give wildlife 

 conservation an impetus which will accomplish much within the next few 

 years. Reserving certain submarginal land for recreation purposes, for 

 erosion control, for tree planting, or for the formation of ponds for 

 water conservation is a very common land-use recommendation by the local 

 committee. The next step is to use Hational agricultural programs, modi- 

 fying them if necessary, to help the local people bring about the use of 

 land they have decided is most desirable. An increased appreciation of 

 the value of the wildlife which can be developed on their own farms and 

 in the county parks, forests, and reserves will be one of the objectives 

 of this effort. I believe that the time has come to cash in on those 

 long years of pioneer work which you and those who have gone before you 

 have done in waking America to the vital need of conserving our natural 

 resources. 



FARMER'S STAKE IN NATURAL RESOURCES 



Any way you look at it, the farmer has a big stake in the conser- 

 vation of natural resources. He knows that he lives off the natural 

 resources. The farm spells home to him. The city dweller may live in 

 a dozen places during the course of his career, but the farmer expects 

 ordinarily to stay fen the farm - the same farm if possible - because he 

 loves to work in the open, likes to handle animals, and loves the grow- 

 ing things. Is this not likely ground for developing a movement for 

 conservation of all natural resources? Yet in the past the rural people 

 have too often felt that they were brought into the picture only by 

 sufferance and not as a vital cooperating factor. As "Ding" Darling 

 said to the extension agents, in an article published in our extension 

 magazine a few years ago: 



"Our laws say that the farmer does not own the game, but 

 nearly every hunter who has gone out looking for a day 1 s 

 shooting has a pretty good understanding of the fact that 

 the farmer controls the game. If the landowner destroys the 

 environment and with it the game, even the most liberal laws 

 will do the hunter little good." 



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