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enables each forest tract to be treated in a way best suited to its own 

 peculiar needs, through measures involving the least possible cost. 

 It is justified by experience, having proved successful on the National 

 Forests for the past fifteen years. It also has the immense advantage 

 of allowing us to start the control in a simple way, providing at first 

 for such measures only as are obviously desirable and essential, readily 

 understood, and simple in application. As time goes on the forest 

 operators will become more and more familiar with what the law 

 requires of them and, more important still, will see that the measures 

 to be applied work directly to their own substantial gain. Forest 

 management, then, may be improved gradually as circumstances 

 warrant. 



It should be borne in mind that the passage of this Act would be 

 followed by a period of one year during which the operators would be 

 instrttcted as to the measures to be enforced after that year has elapsed. 



CO-OPERATION 



All Parties Concerned Have a Voice in Passing Upon Standards and 

 Regidations 

 In establishing and applying the standards and regulations the 

 Forester and regional foresters would have the advice and assistance 

 of advisory boards, upon which would be the State foresters con- 

 cerned and representatives from the lumbering and wood-using in- 

 dustries. It is probable that these boards would become standing 

 committees, with functions much like those of the boards of cattle 

 and sheep owners which have co-operated successfully with the 

 officials of the National Forests for many years. This is another detail 

 of administration which conforms to established practice. 



ORGANIZATION 



The District Foresters and State Foresters Are a Part of the 

 Organisation 

 The bill is so framed as to make the organization a simple one. 

 The Secretary and the Forester would be concerned only with the 

 larger principles of organization, for the bulk of the executive work 

 is left to the field officers. The organization necessary for supervision 

 and inspection might well follow the general lines of that now in 

 efifect for the control of timber sales on the National Forests, although 

 it need not, of course, be anything like as intensive. District forest 



