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"Research," in the Washington office Weekly Bulletin. As a lands 

 question, we may call it classification ; from a silvicultural standpoint it 

 might be related to timber surveys, and in its broadest sense it is re- 

 search. The need for detailed investigations is constantly coming up. 

 We find it in trying to develop a game policy for the National Forests 

 without adequate knowledge of game and game ranges outside the 

 Forests. We find it when we try to make a rough plan for silvicultural 

 management, with a totally inadequate knowledge of growth, or even 

 of the available stand on our Forests. Think of the untold misery and 

 privation that has resulted from the Nation's policy of unrestricted 

 land settlement, under which, for lack of classification, thousands of 

 settlers were allowed to make a hopeless fight against impossible condi- 

 tions, and finally to give up, impoverished and embittered. The answer 

 to most of our problems will be reached or approached only through 

 detailed, painstaking, scientific study. As the Forester has emphasized, 

 the need for it runs through all National Forest work. It is every- 

 body's job. 



