The Ely miner., 1928-05-04
TAKE YOUR choice?
Relative Values Of Parks and Forests Elk
planned by an Authority on Such Matters.-.
We contend that Forest is of Much More
Benefit to Us than is a Park..What Do You
Think?
NATIONAL FORESTS.

"a national forest is an extensive
area set aside to protect, improve and
maintain in permanently productive
or useful condition lands unsuited to
agriculture but capable of yielding
forest products and other coordinate
benefits National forests are design
ed to benefit, the public through the
complete utilization of all their re-
sources and the development of their
potential values-the timber the for
age, the waters, the wild life and the
recreative, in accordance with the
principles of applied science and CO.
ordinated use consistent with perma-
nent productivity.
"It is not the purpose of a national
forest to duplicate unique recreation
functions of the national parks, al
though recreation is a common re-
source of both classes of reservations.
Recognition is given to the occurrence
of landscape features; natural forma-
tions; objects of scientific, historic, or
archaeological interest; game animals
and fish; and areas preeminently
suited as sites for camps, resorts, SAN
atoria, picnic, grounds and summer
homes These utilities constitute re-
creational resources of social impor-
tance. Their preservation, develop
ment and wise, use for the promotion
of public welfare is an important and
essential feature of forest manage
ment coordinate with the production
of timber and forage and the conser-
walton of water and other resources
Where recreation and other forms of
use-conflict, however, careful plan
ming determines whether the maxi
mum utilization of one resource can
be secured with minimum injury to
the others.
"The national forests complete ad-
ministration of the wild life and game
resources on permanently productive
basis is dictated as a use coordinate
with other uses. The use of the game
assets of the national forest is eco
nomic and in lesser degree spiritual.
The numbers of game administered
are adjusted to the food supply avail
able to insure permanent breeding
stock which will perpetually produce
a given surplus to be used as COM
pletely as possible for all three car
dinal purposes of game conservation:
economic use; ,esthetic pleasure; and
recreational use, for sport, study and
photography. To this end the national
forests, wherever the laws permit, en-
brace not only sanctuaries where all
wild life is held inviolate; and areas
for feeding, rest and breeding; but
areas where Hunting is permitted
under state laws.
"The inclusive functions of the ma
tional forests are well summarized by
Henry S. Graves, former chief of the
q. s. Forest Service:
"Forests are more than trees.
They are land areas on which are
associated various forms of plant
and animal life. The forester
must deal with all. Forest admin
istration should be planned with
a view to realizing all possible
benefits from the land areas
handled. 1t should take account
Of their direct value for recreation
and health as well as their value
for the production of salable ma
terial; and of their value for the
production of meat, hides, and fur
of all kinds as well as for the pro-
duction of wood and the protec-
tion of water supplies