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Evaluation and Conclusions There is, In the histories of communities in relation to their resource base, a period of learning how to reach the resource and use it, followed by a period of rich enjoyment which seems endless in that happy time; then there comes a choice of working out the resource and losing it, or learning the art and science of conservation that the resource may be perpetuated by wise use. (Darling and Eichhorn, 1967)
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Evaluation and Conclusions 257 homeostasis for mankind on this continent includes the abridgment of demand as a concommitant of conservative resource use. For the present, it is too much to ask just how many people should be planned for at just what point in the future.
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258 Land Use and Wildlife Resources is marketable and another is not. In terms of public policy, someone must reach a judgment between the productive potential of an area as determined by physical capability and what actually should be done with it to serve best the majority of.citizens.
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Relationships should be established to assure adequate protection of public wildlife values. Special attention is needed in public assistance programs toward providing incentives that will make it feasible for landowners to benefit wildlife as they go about their brushland management programs.
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Recognition of the status of large predators as vanishing species within the United States-especially the grizzly bear, grey wolf, and puma-requires that these species be given special protection through appropriate state-federal cooperative arrangements. The natural relationships of predators to game species need to be better understood as being generally beneficial or innocuous and not as justifying public programs for the reduction of carnivores.
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Evaluation and Conclusions 261 ority in the planning of small-watershed programs, and the present emphasis on drainage and channelization of streams is in need of review and change. The states should be urged to establish and enforce more stringent regulations governing the dredging and filling of natural water areas.
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1967. Man and nature in the national parks.
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