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FOREST MANAGEMENT. 



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Public Lauds. 



On the public lands greater strides were made in the intro- 

 duction of forest management than ever before. Wherever on 

 the reserves timber is in present demand working plans are 

 being prepared w^hich will insure the best use of the forests. 

 On the Chippewa Indian Reservation, in Minnesota, the com- 

 plete success of the plan to secure the perpetuation of the 

 forests is assured. In California, Colorado, Montana, South 

 Dakota, and Wyoming studies of leading commercial trees 

 have provided a basis for the intelligent management of the 

 forests in which these trees hold an important place, including 

 many of the reserve forests. 



Private Lands. 



The movement to introduce forest management on private 

 lands is spreading rapidly, especially in the Pacific Coast States 

 and the Middle West. Nearly, four-fifths of the applicants for 

 cooperative assistance were small owners. The total area for 

 which assistance was asked was nearly 1,500,000 acres. Exam- 

 inations to determine the practicability of management were 

 made of 22 large timber tracts in 15 States, and detailed work- 

 ing plans were made for 8 large and 81 small tracts, with a total 

 area of almost 2,000,000 acres. 



FOREST EXTENSION 



Up to the present 3'ear the work in extension found alto- 

 gether its largest field of usefulness in the preparation of plant- 

 ing plans for farm protection and local timber supply in the 

 scantily timbered regions of the ^liddle West. It is certain 

 that tree planting will always hold an important place in farm 

 economy, but it is more and more becoming possible to supply 

 the needed information for this work from the central office 

 as a result of regional studies. The large projects involved 

 in the establishing or replacing of forests on reserve lands now 

 unforested, and in demonstrating to the consumers of timber 

 that they must provide for their future needs, will probably for 

 the next few years increasingly claim the attention of the 

 Forest Service. 



