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its timberland ownership and must cooperate in a friendly way with 

 the industry. 



Research work is needed in CaHfornia to determine the facts 

 about such things as the influence of the forest upon streamflow. 

 For years we have all been talking qualitatively a lot about it, but we 

 make no claims to knowing anything about it quantitatively. If we 

 were in a position to prove absolutely that streamflow conditions 

 would be improved 25 per cent by the best of forest management, the 

 money would be forthcoming surely to do anything that foresters 

 want to do in the State. Research is necessary to determine what 

 forest use can be made and how it may best be made of large areas 

 in the State which are not now well forested. Research is needed in 

 hundreds of industrial problems, from the sort of log which can be 

 profitably removed from the woods to the best method of drying the 

 lumber. Research work at the University is important equally with 

 the teaching work ; we wish to prove as valuable to the State through 

 research as through teaching. It is the ambition of the Division of 

 Forestry at the University not only to train the men that are needed 

 in the forest industries, but also to conduct the research work that 

 is necessary to advance the technique of these industries. 



Revision of and addition to the laws of the State are needed along 

 several lines. There should be a State Board of Forestry representing 

 the various forest interests. The board should be free from frequent 

 change and especially free from change caused by the political com- 

 plexion of the State administration. It should be on as high a plane 

 as the board of regents of the University, upon which the members 

 serve for long periods and are free from political control. Ample 

 authority and appropriations should be provided to enable the State 

 forester to institute a real protective system ; to provide for paid 

 wardens serving throughout the year, with protection as their main 

 duty, but rendering service along other forestry lines also ; to con- 

 struct improvements needed in connection with forest protection and 

 to buy supplies, to fight fires, to clean up dangerous slash, and to 

 cooperate in protection work with various landowners in the State. 

 Provision should be made for State forests through the acquirement 

 and administration of cut-over and other land valuable for the purpose. 

 There should be a revision of the tax laws with the object of taxing 

 timberlands in such a way that the process would tend to the con- 

 servation rather than the destruction of privately owned timber. It 



