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United States ee ese of Agriculture 
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FORESTRY AND GAME MANAGEMENT* 
By Herman H. Chapman, Yale School of Forestry 
Geme management within forest areas looks to the production of 
the largess possible annual crops of game consistent with the preser~ 
vation and management of the forest itself. It does not look upon 
game as the sole or even the vrimary product of the forest, but as one 
of several uses, including timber crops, watershed and soil protection, 
and on extensive areas in the West, the grazing of domestic stock. 
Game crops must find their proper place in this scheme, and it is the , 
business of the forester to see that this resource, as well as others, 
is brought to its fullest utility. 
Game management is just emerging from a prolonged period of 
domination by svortsmen interested only -in the bag limits and hunt-— 
ing seasons on tne one hand, and by politicians who battened on the 
enforcement of these primitive laws on the other; and now bids fair 
ultimately to take its vlace with forestry as a source of conservation 
and intelligently planned sustained yield, based on an understending 
of the biological factors involved in maintaining such a balance, and | 
@ recognition by the public that only by giving entire control to men i 
trained in these services cen edequate results ever be achieved. 
, While the technical direction and control of game production in | 
States and Nation must rest with game specialists, the immediate 
_problem, where definite areas of forest are conicemmed, cto isecune | 
full coordination in the specific management of these forests, so that | 
neither the production of timber crops, nor the protection of water- 
sheds, nor the grazing of livestock, nor the preservation of elk or 
ser becomes on exclusive aim, in the pursuit of which ell other values 
and interests are ignored. 
The general position of the forester, in all civilized countries—- ) 
& position accorded by the public as the best solution of their prob- 
lem of adjustment of conflicting interests—--gives him practically full 
control of all the different uses of a forest area. This solution 
is based on the belief that the forest crop is in fact the dominent use, 
giving the highest value per acre to society, end that other uses must 
therefore be subordinated and correlated to this use. 
This solution, however, has not yet been accepted by the Ameri- 
can public at large, end the nearest approach to it is in the proposal 
by the Department of Agriculture that the regulation of geme on the 
national forests be recognized as a Federol responsibility and carried 
out by the Forest Service. 
*Reprinted by permission from the Journal of Forestry 34 (2): 104-106, 
Heb. LOSE. 
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