A POLICY OF FORESTRY FOR THE NATION U07 



4. The cooperation that should be given by the public to make 

 feasible in practice the measures that may be necessary for the owners 

 to take. 



. 5. The legislation needed to bring these measures into practice, as 

 a part of the State's program of forestry. 



As in the case of fire protection, the plan for special measures and 

 for forest renewal should be worked out through State legislation and 

 administration, with the assistance and backing of the Government. 

 The Federal government should seek to secure concurrent action by 

 the States within given economic regional units, to bring about uni- 

 form standards of practice, to conduct experiments and research, to 

 grant material aid in various ways, and to act as a coordinating agent 

 to bring together the different local agencies into full cooperation. 

 The Governmeiit should make its assistance to the States contingent 

 upon effective action by the latter. 



Measures of forestry upon private lands sought by the proposed 

 program fall into two classes : first, those necessary to prevent the 

 lands becoming waste after lumbering; and second, those which seek 

 a maximum production of timber and other products. The first class 

 of measures should be required on all lands that ought to remain in 

 forest growth. The measures to secure maximum production are of a 

 more intensive character. They should be encouraged in every way 

 but should not be obligatory. They involve a larger initial investment, 

 and when they are practiced the lands render a larger ultimate return 

 to the owner. Under the second class fall such measures as planting 

 where needed, leaving a larger number of seed trees, cutting in favor- 

 able seed years, leaving medium sized trees even though now salable 

 for a second cut or for cover, various kinds of thinnings of second 

 growth, organization of the forest work on a basis of sustained annual 

 yield, and so on. Experiments should be conducted by the public to 

 establish and make generally known the best practice in each region. 

 Advice by public officers should be freely afforded. Planting stock 

 should be offered at cost. Taxes should be adjusted to encourage 

 owners to undertake the methods found to be most efficient, and other 

 measures of aid given as indicated in the last section of this statement. 



Economical Utilisation 



Every encouragement should be afforded to bring about close utiliza- 

 tion of timber in the forest and to prevent losses in the handling and 

 use of the manufactured product. This will be accomplished largely 



