NATIONAL FOREST POLICIES GO!) 



ization, thorough-going local administration, and local regulations for 

 local forest conditions. The Forest Service, under national laws and 

 national control, has for many years made timber sales in many dif- 

 ferent parts of the United States and under many different forest 

 conditions, necessitating as many different silvicultural methods in 

 the cutting of timber. There is no evidence to show that the Forest 

 Service has been attacked on the score of applying iron-clad, nation- 

 wide rules and regulations. Under localized administration it has 

 solved local problems on the basis of local conditions, both in the forest 

 and on the range. 



The advantages of national control which, apparently, have not been 

 seriously disputed, are that in comparison to State control it is dis- 

 tinctly more intelligent, more stable, much freer from politics, practi- 

 cally closed to influence from private interests, and in general immensely 

 more efficient. The Committee has pointed out the unintelligent, weak, 

 transitory, and politically involved State forest administrations, ex- 

 amples of which abound; and it has asked how, under such conditions, 

 real accomplishment can be expected. 



It may be added that a Committee on Forests has recently been 

 organized by the National Conservation Association, and that this 

 Committee has already met and discussed plans for the perpetuation 

 of the forest crops of the Nation. The program to be urged by this 

 Association will doubtless be published in the near future and will be 

 reviewed in the Journal of Forestry later on. 



