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FORESTS AND MANKIND 



of forestry the establishment of the National Forests. This 

 definitely placed the Government in advance of the States as 

 an agent of forest protection. Until this time the President 

 had been without authority to set aside land for timber grow- 

 ing. The new law now gave him the power to create forest 



PROTECTION OF PRIVATE AND^ STATE FORESTS FROM FIRE 



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SYSTEMATIC PROTECTION CITHER 



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TEN MILLION ACRES 



FIRE PROTECTION STATE AND PRIVATE 



In addition to the National Forests, all of which are given fire protection, private 

 and state forests are being protected in varying degrees. 



In the northwest and northeast some degree of fire protection is almost universal. 

 In the south very little is being done to protect their valuable forests. 



reserves later to be known as National Forests from public 

 lands wholly or partially covered with forests. It was under 

 this authority that more than one hundred and ninety-one 

 million acres of land have at one time or another been set 

 aside for timber protection, and the whole system of the Forest 



