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from the ability or inability of the States to handle the National 

 forests, Mr, Graves strikes the keynote when he says that "the 

 underlying purpose of the proposed transfer of the National 

 forests to the States is really not a substitution of State for 

 Federal control, but rather to substitute individual for public con- 

 trol." 



With a different party in control of Congress next year still 

 greater uncertainty is adding to the situation as regards the 

 National forests, and the developments in Congress and elsewhere 

 cannot be watched too closely, nor vicious legislation fought too 

 vigorously by friends of forest conservation. 



