NATIOXAL FOREST POLIClKS 599 



Forest Service, the American Paper and Pulp Association, the National 

 Lumber Manufacturers' Association, and the Society of American 

 Foresters (Committee for the Application of Forestry). For the sake 

 of comparison and criticism they are summarized briefly below. 



UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE 



The plan advanced by the Forest Service is perhaps most clearly 

 laid down in the so-called Capper Report (Report on Senate Resolution 

 311, Government Printing Office, June 1, 1920). Its essential pro- 

 visions are as follows : 



Federal Legislation 



An annual appropriation of not less than $1,000,000 for co-operation 

 with the States in fire protection, -cutting methods, reforestation, and 

 land classification. The States to contribute an amount equal to that 

 allotted by the Federal Government. The Secretary of Agriculture to 

 be authorized to require certain standards for the disposal of slash, 

 fire protection and cutting regulations. Co-operation to be withheld 

 from those States not complying with such standards. 



An annual appropriation of at least $2,000,000 for the purchase of 

 lands under the Weeks Law, its provisions to be extended to all parts 

 of the country. 



An annual appropriation of $500,000, to be increased to $1,000,000, 

 for the reforestation of denuded lands in National Forests, the work 

 to be completed within twenty years. 



An appropriation of $8,000,000, available for from two to four 

 years, for a survey of the forest resources of the United States. 



A moderate ap})ropriation for the study of forest taxation and 

 forest insurance. 



The exchange of National Forest land, timber or transferrable 

 timber certificates for private timberland or cut-over land within or 

 adjacent to existing National Forests. 



Withholding from alienation, except under the mineral laws, all 

 government lands chiefly valuable for the production of timber or the 

 protection of watersheds and which are not now in National Forests 

 or National Parks. 



State Legislation ■ 



Organized fire protection for cut-over as well as timbered lands. 

 Every forest owner, large or small, to bear his share of the cost, private 

 owners to contribute about one-half the expense. 



Regulations for the disposal of slashings, and for cutting timber or 

 extracting forest products (such as naval stoies or pulpwood). 



