NATIONAL FOREST POLICIES 60:3 



An adequate appropriation for the prompt survey of the Nation's 

 forest resources, in co-operation with forest producing industries. 

 States, and other sources of information. 



Adequate provision for research by the Forest Service, to determine 

 methods of wood utihzation, wood preservation, forest reproduction, 

 and the control of insects, disease and other forest enemies. 



Liberal provision for the selection and acquisition, by purchase and 

 exchange, of such lands as should be added to the National Forest 

 system to secure their best protection and management in the public 

 interest. 



Provision for replanting such denuded areas in the National Forest!= 

 as are evidently not to be restocked by natural processes. 



In addition to the above specific recommendations for Federal 

 legislation, certain general principles are approved. The need is 

 recognized for the development of an intelligent, practical, equitable 

 and concerted program for the perpetuation of forest supplies. The 

 Government should lend encouragement and assistance to the States 

 in forest improvement, protection and tax reform, making provision 

 to reimburse local taxing units for loss of taxation due to the acquisi- 

 tion of lands by the Government. The Army should be utilized in 

 emergencies for fire fighting and for aviation patrol. There should be 

 a wise, consistent policy for the marketing of publicly owned timber. 

 The Forest Service should lead in forestry thought, but should have 

 no regulator}^ control over private forest lands unless the owners 

 agree to it. 



The statement is made that State legislation is properly for local 

 self-determination, and no suggestions for State legislation are ofi:"ered 

 beyond certain general principles, as follows : 



Suggested Principles for State Legislation 



Fire prevention, in co-operation with the Federal Government. 



Acquirement by the States, by purchase and by the exchange of 

 stumpage for land, of much larger areas of permanent forest land than 

 they now possess, such acquirement to be largely of cut-over land. 

 The States and the Federal (rovernment to be empowered to condemn 

 and pay for deforested land in case the private owners refuse to sell 

 it or to take reasonable steps to keep it in timber crops, prices to be 

 comparable to those paid in voluntary transactions. 



Co-operation by the States in the classification of forest land. 



Questions of private and public responsibility or of police power 

 should be decided locally in every instance and be the subject of State 

 legislation, if of any. The lumber industry should be duly represented 

 on committees, Ijoards or commissions dealing with the adoption or 



