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some direct benefit from their use. The cost 
of the force of men who protect the forests from 
fire and trespass and who see that the resources 
are used in the right way, as well as all other 
expenses connected with the forest management, 
is borne by the people as a whole. It is only 
reasonable, then, since the forests belong to the 
people, and since they pay for their maintenance, 
that the comparatively few persons who have 
full access to their resources should pay a rea- 
sonable amount for what they get. Fees are in 
no way excessive. They merely balance the 
added benefits which National forests give their 
users. The very best answer to the charge that 
fees are in any way prohibitive upon users of the’ 
forests is the number of applications for per- 
mits, which this year is greater than ever be- 
fore, and more than some of the forests are able 
to accommodate. 
Some complaint has been made that National 
forests withdraw a great deal of land from tax- 
ation. It is true that the National Government 
pays no taxes, In their place, however, it pays 
each year to the counties in which the forests 
are located ten per cent. of all receipts from 
the sale of timber, use of range, and other uses. 
So large was it certain that the counties’ revenue 
from this source would become that Congress 
provided that the amount paid in any one year 
should not exceed forty per cent. of the coun- 
ties’ tax receipts from other sources. Few can 
well claim, then, that the counties would have 
been benefited in any way as well had the Na- 
tional forests not been created. 
To conserve the natural resources of the 
Nation is absolutely essential if it is to have a 
high future. To prevent vast areas of the public 
domain from falling into the hands of corpora- 
tions or individuals with large resources is the 
one way to make sure that the future inhabi- 
tants of the West shall be freeholders and not 
tenants. The best development of a region is 
brought about when all its land is put to those 
uses to. which it is best adapted. These are 
principles which each day are coming to be 
more fully recognized as true. Upon them the 
National forest policy is based. 
ISLANDS OVERRUN BY DEER. 
FARMERS on Orcas, Whidby, Lopez and 
Mercer Islands have grown weary shooing the 
deer away from their crops, and they are de- 
manding the privilege of exterminating the deer 
on the tslands, says the Walla-Walla Statesman. 
Either this action or they will have to move 
back to town and give over the islands to the 
wild game. : 
It is claimed by the farming interests that 
the bill making game preserves of the four 
islands was all very well in the days when these 
spots were not settled by an industrious class 
that is now tilling the soil. Then it made no 
difference whether the deer multiplied like 
rabbits or whether they were driven into the 
water by hunters. 
Now that Orcas, Whidhy, Lopez and Mercer 
Islands have become thickly settled the deer 
have become a nuisance. Mercer Island lies in 
Lake Washington within a stone’s throw of the 
State’s metropolis; but the- deer are as absolute 
in their control as though the spot was located 
near Mount Tacoma. 
It does not make any difference how much 
money is spent by the settlers and _ city 
farmers on the improvement of their places, 
the deer drift in and eat up whatever suits their 
fancy, and the farmers are helpless. All they 
can do is to shoo away the invaders, and if they 
will not shoo the farmer may in his desperation 
take the deer by the horns and lead him out- 
side the inclosure, but he has no privilege in 
law of using violence in dealing with the deer pest. 
One or two residents on Mercer Island tried 
to be rid of the deer pest. It is related that one 
industrious citizen who found the deer eating up 
his cabbage patch killed one and the game 
warden immediately placed him under arrest. 
That the courts subsequently freed him is no 
consolation. The farmers in the deer-infested 
regions want the privilege of fighting to preserve 
ie firesides from invasion by the ferocious 
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