This development is still too new to affect very greatly the rank 

 and file of forest personnel, hut from the standpoint.-^bf midlife it is 

 a 'very encouraging program. 



In discussing the second point, that concerning rea.sonahle modifi- 

 cation of present forestry practices, mention must "be made of two important 

 ideas which have he en given increasing attention in recent years hy the 

 Federal Forest Service. Each one csai he used constructively to aid the 

 wiidTife population of forest lands. Tnese two are the idea of multiple 

 use of forest lands, and the management of forests on a sustained yield 

 hasis. 



The .concept of. multiple use has heen growing slowly for years, 

 encouraged partly, at least, "by the increasing thousands of people who 

 are using the forests for recreational purposes. This evolutionary 

 development has encouraged those who could see in a forest something 

 more than an area where it was possihle to grow so many thousand hoard 

 feet to the acre. Inevitahly there will he conflicts of interests and 

 ideas in the evolution of this program. Livestock men having grazing 

 permits on western forests are especially apprehensive that increasing 

 recrea-tional use will limit the grazing allowed on these areas. T'nis 

 may he true to a certain extent, though no one can project long-time 

 trends with complete confidence. In the end the highest and most 

 proiitahle use of the ' lands will undouhtedly govern, and in many cases 

 this undouhtedly means correlation of several uses rather than exclusive 

 privileges held out and fostered for the henefit of any one group or 

 interest. Under such a program wildlife will undouhtedly receive in-, 

 creasing consideration. 



The program of management which calls for the harvesting of the 

 forests on a sustained yield hasis, which is the present policy on 

 National as well as many State forests, will with some modification 

 operate to provide automatically hetter environment for wildlife than 

 now prevails on much of the timhered area. 



To amplify this statement and show the value of a slight modifi- 

 cation of the present program it is necessary to consider the needs of 

 forest animals and hirds. 



Briefly, it may he said thp.t the great majority of such species, 

 particularly those regarded as game, are most ah-Jiidant along the line 

 where two different vegetative types meet. This fact is heing recognized 

 and given its proper significance hy an increasing numher of authorities 

 in recent years. 



Every hunter has long utilized the fact that in forest glades, 

 along the trails, or in the edges of hrush patches, he had his greatest 

 chance of success, hut few have appreciated its significance in a wild- 

 life management plan. 



In eastern hardwood forests and the heavy spruce, fir, or redwood 

 forests- of the west coast this fact is less ohscured hy other factors 

 than in t"he yellow-pine forests of the Rockies or the open long-leafed 

 pine forests of the south. In the first two types the wildlife. is 



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