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/---The Dragons Are Bigger Today MORE TIMES THAN WE CAN REMEMBER, we've been asked about hunting in the future. As game managers, our reply must weigh two basic variables: the amount of huntable game that the land produces, and the amount of huntable land producing that game. Both of these factors, of course, depend upon a master variable: future land use. We know that maximum crop production is incompatible with maximum production of wildlife. The big question is whether land in the future will be in maximum production, or in optimum production-and the two are not necessarily the same. Or. Charles Hitch, President of Resources for the Future, Inc., has said that the United States can feed 300 million Americans at current levels of consumption and still be a major agricultural exporter. Other authorities in the field of land use economics agree that our land and water supplies are sufficiently large and productive to meet our domestic demands and allow some of those basic resources to be used for recreation, wildlife, and other non-food 191 The Dragons Are Bigger Today ..on nwu nuN W. ble land producing that ""me. Both of these f.ble land producing that ""me. Both of these f.<;tors, of course. depend upon a master variable: future l.lnd use. We know that m.oximum crop production is inrompatible with nuximum produdion of wildlife. The big question is whether l.nd in the future will be in mui",~.. produdion. Or in opIim,"" produdion----

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