Land use and resource planning, because of mounting socioeconomic pressure, will become increasingly important to wildlife administrators. The Land and Water Conservation Fund Program opens to wildlife agencies a unique opportunity to share in coordinating the direction of land and water use planning. When viewed in combination with existing statutory authority for total state planning and considering the mandatory requirements for coordination of water and other plans with a state recreation plan, the program provides an exciting, readily available means of building wildlife views and values into a statewide development program.
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