Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry2111915amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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182 AMERICAN FORESTRY
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Forest Service Ranger Station. J. K. carper, forest service hunter at billy meadow, W^ALLOWA national forest, OREGON, WITH A FEW SPECI- MENS OF THE BEAR AND OTHER ANIMALS KILLED IN AND ABOUT THE STATION. multiplication of game animals is re- moved. If no other check is introduced, the gsme will become so numerous that eventually, no matter how large the area of their feeding grounds, it will be insufificient. Around the Yellowstone Park many elk now die miserably in hard winters, when they must seek feed below the level of their summer range, because the ranchman and the stock- man have closed in about them. Ob- viously feeding grounds for wild game can not be provided indefinitely; some- where the line must be drawn. Hunting is one means of holding in check the natural increase. It is clear that in handling the game question there must be applied the same conservation prin- ciple which is involved in many other matters. The natural balance of nature must be replaced by an artificial balance, devised with a view to the largest possible satisfaction of human requirements. Alan makes the earth over. He can not do otherwise. He must enter the struggle for existence, and interfere with w^hat is, in order to live. The only question is whether he shall make it over intelligenth' or blindly; by fore- seeing consequences and bringing to pass that which he has deliberately chosen, or b)" running amuck. The game question requires the exercise of foresight and intelligent choice, to the end that where the best interests of all of us allow and call for the preservation of this form of wilel life it may be so preserved as to afford the largest measure of human satisfaction, with the smallest measure of drawbacks—includ- ing the drawback of unnecessary suffer- ing to the game animals themselves.

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