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point of 'diminishing returns') but on the activities of the living 
animal and its relation to the real world in which he lives. 
" There is thus an urgent need for scientific research. How 
can this be best favored? 
Proposed Remedy 
" Our larger universities, as a rule, have ignored the investiga- 
tion of the larger game animals, and at present there is no indica- 
tion of an early change of policy. The larger animals of the forest 
have for ages been considered as one of the regular products of 
the forest, or as Chief Forester Graves of the Forest Service has 
expressed it : * Wild life is largely a forest product. It should be 
regarded as a public resource, to be protected and systematically 
developed. It is a resource which is easily destroyed under abuse; 
but it readily responds to right treatment. The intelligent fostering 
of the valuable wild life of the forest is and has always been one 
of the objects of forestry. Forests are more than trees. They are 
rather land areas on which are associated various forms of plant 
and animal life. The forester must deal with all. Wild life is as 
essentially and legitimately an object of his care as are water, wood, 
and forage. Forest administration should be planned with a view 
to realizing all possible benefits from the land areas handled. It 
should take account of their indirect value for recreation and health 
as well as their value for the production of salable material ; and of 
their value for the production of meat, hides, and furs of all kinds 
as well as for the production of wood and the protection of water 
supplies.' 
" The relation of game to forests is thus seen to be a permanent 
one and not a temporary alliance. It should not depend upon the 
favor of a few men who happen to be interested, for it is based 
upon mutual fundamental interests and therefore there should be 
a definite poMcy looking forward to permanent results. The most 
promising methods of favoring research on these large game animals 
are : 
" First, to utilize trained men. To put into the field such available 
trained men as can be secured to investigate important and urgent 
problems. These men should be used while younger men are in 
training. 
" Second, train voung men. By means of fellowships young men 
can be encouraeed to get the necessary training to become technical 
investigators of large game animals. 
" It would be the part of wisdom to utihze both of these methods 
at some educational institution where emphasis is put upon research." 
At a meeting of the Directors of the Boone and Crockett Club 
soon afterward a special committee was authorized to consider this 
plan, composed of Dr. Lewis Rutherford Morris, chairman, acting 
