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Show Wasatch National Forest MANAGEMENT OF THE SO-CALLED "WILD LANDS" Local Stale, and National economy, econ-omy, as well as the social and industrial in-dustrial welfare, in fact all organic organ-ic life is dependent upon soil and the products thereof. Without a supply of reasonable natural resources, re-sources, civilization would cease, and therefore in direct ratio with a plentyful supply of such resources, re-sources, or the reverse, prosperity or its opposite prevails. Soils to produce must be fertile and kept in place Therefore accelerated ac-celerated erosion of any kind or character cannot be countenanced countenanc-ed or tolerated if prosperity is to be on a stabilized basis. This applies equally forcibly upon any and all lands. The so-called "wild lands" axe, any lands not placed under cul- . tivation, but which nevertheless do contribute resources vital . tq 1 mankind. Some of these resources are water, hydroelectric power, timber used in constructing homes, hom-es, furniture, railroading, mining, and other uses too numerous to mention forage for the production produc-tion of beef, leather, wool, mutton, mut-ton, game, habitat for wild life and fur bearing animals, inspir- ' ational recreation amid natures health-giving atmosphere and manv others. Management and use of the so-called "wild lands" is irrevocably irrevoc-ably tied managment and use of cultivated lands since water storage and use thereof and production pro-duction of forage, timber, or other crops on wild lands is inimical to production of corn, wheat, beets, or other crops on cultivated lands. Throughout the W;t there would be little irrigable agriculture agricul-ture except for the source of water wat-er supply from wild lands. A concrete example of management manage-ment of wild lands for the greatest great-est good to the greatest number in the long run, prevails on the Wasatch National Forest in Utah, an area of only 1.011,251 acres. Approximately sixty per cent of the State's population of 550,310 is so located that they are dependent depend-ent to a greater extent upon the products of the wild lands contained con-tained therein and as follows: 1 Water for domestic use, for irrigation of a large portion of the most fertil farm lands and for hydroelectric power. 2. Grazing Graz-ing annually for about 67,000 sheep, 9,000 head of cattle, and 8,500 big game animals. 3. About seven million board feet of timber tim-ber annually in the form of mine props, lumber, railroad ties, fuel, etc. 1. Summer recreation for about 935,000 picnickers and campers winter sports for 178.000 enthusiasts enthus-iasts and this on areas aggregating aggrega-ting only about two-thirds of one percent of the gross. 5. Mining, milling, prospecting, etc. 6. Several Sev-eral hundred miles of fishing streams and natural lakes. 7. Industrial In-dustrial employment of several hundred individuals (CCC) in the developmnt, utilization and manufacture man-ufacture of resources. 8. Reservoir Reser-voir of employment and resources vital to industrial and social welfare wel-fare and to national security and national defense. Forest Service management is conducted along conservation principles and on a basis of "multiple "mul-tiple use" of all resources and under un-der a well-cordinated and correlated cor-related basis of dominat use and benefit. Utilization is on the basis of maximum perpetually sustan-ed sustan-ed yields which is necessary for stability of industries, permanent homes and communities. One of the most important factors fac-tors involved in keeping soils in place and productive is the elimination elim-ination of fires. |
