The relations between wildlife and its habitat are dynamic, and where 
the production of annual crops of wildlife, particularly production for pro- 
fit, is the object, unremitting attention to the balance between environ- 
mental factors, in a word the thoroughgoing application of wildlife techno- 
logy, is essential to success, Conservation in any degree can best be 
accomplished by due attention to dynamic ecology. To the forester, the soil 
conservator, and the land utilization specialist, wildlife production is an 
incidental out potentially important activity, while to the game manager it 
is the prime objective, All classes of owners of land upon which wildlife may 
be conserved for its own sake or managed for utilization, whether Nation 
or State, association or individual, farmer or svortsman, heave 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. De- 
velopment of a satisfactory system of managing and marketing farm game might 
be the means of trensforming many a marginal farm into a productive one, 
Wildlife technolog: will help solve problems in land-planning and soil con- 
servation, the prompt and correct solution of which is essential to national 
prosperity. t 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 Cepends 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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