"by due attention to dynamic ecology. To the forester, the soil conservator, 

 and the land utilization specialist, wildlife production is an incidental "but 

 potentially important activity, while to the game manager it is the prime 

 objective. All classes of owners of land upon which wildlife may be con- 

 served for its own sake or managed for utilization, whether Nation or State, 

 association or individual, fanner or sportsman, have need for, and may 

 profit from, the technology of wildlife management. 



A technology so universal in application necessarily has great social 

 significance. It offers the only hope of settling the vexed question of 

 farmer-sportsman relationships, upon which depends entirely the possibility 

 of widespread realization of income from the wildlife crop of the land. 

 Development of a satisfactory system of managing and marketing farm game 

 might be the means of transforming many a marginal farm into a productive one. 

 Wildlife technology will help solve problems in land-planning and soil 

 conservation, the prompt and correct solution of which is essential to 

 national prosperity. It points the way to diversification of forest use that 

 may yield income based on wildlife production from timbered areas, which 

 although properly and necessarily preserved by the nation, may return little, 

 except at long intervals, from tree products alone. The proper functioning 

 of every bird refuge and game preserve, of the system of wildlife protection 

 in the national parks, and of animal conservation in general depends upon 

 wildlife technology. That puts a great burden upon this comparatively young 

 applied science, but it is gratifying that its capacity to bear appears to be 

 in proportion to the load. As closely as wise utilization may be related to 

 material advantage, so the preservation of our wildlife in as great measure 

 as conditions will permit, is essential to the esthetic and spiritual welfare 

 of the nation. 



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