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New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. This was designed 

 to regulate the use of the water of the Delaware River. New 

 York wants this water to drink, New Jersey and Pennsylvania 

 need it for industry, recreation, and agriculture. And Pennsyl 

 vania also needs it for the protection of a fishing industry in 

 Delaware Bay. Obviously, if a plan is to regulate all these fac 

 tors, it will have to set up some control of all projects dependent 

 on Delaware River water. This means that there will have to 

 be plans for recreation, industry, fishing, agriculture, and popu 

 lation for the three states. Those who object to such plans 

 claim that more and more will be drawn into the scheme until 

 only a complete plan for the whole area would be sufficient. 



There is another type of regional planning based on one 

 resource. The United States Forest Service is an example of 

 this. All the federal forests are under the direction of the Chief 

 of the Forest Service in Washington. To give the Forest Serv 

 ice a direct relation to the various parts of the country in 

 which it works, the country is divided into two sets of re 

 gions. The first of these sets of regions is a division according 

 to the administrative needs and convenience. There are ten 1 

 regions of this type. The second division is according to forest 

 problems. The first set of regions is composed of various na 

 tional forests. The second type of regions consists of various 

 regional forest experiment stations, of which there are twelve. 



The primary work of the Forest Service is to protect and 

 develop the national forests, though it also has important re 

 sponsibilities in cooperating with the states and with private 

 forest owners. Through the Washington office unified policies 

 are carried out. The regional offices apply these policies in a 

 way best suited to the particular region. Each individual forest 

 supervisor has a certain amount of freedom in applying the gen 

 eral policies to his own area. The power flows from Washington 

 to the regions and then down to the individual forest. At the 



1 United States Forest Service Directory, 1937. 



