PART III 



ORGANIZATIONS AND AGENCIES TO ACCOMPLISH A 

 RATIONAL FOREST POLICY 



The organizations seeking to accomplish the practice of better 

 forestry in this country may be classified as public and private. The 

 public agencies are the federal, state, county, and municipal units. 



Many federal departments, agencies, and bureaus are engaged in 

 or concerned with the development of forestry policies. Among the 

 more important are the following: 



1. In the Department of Agriculture the Forest Service, the Soil 



Conservation Service, the Biological Survey, and the Bureau 

 of Plant Industry. 



2. In the Department of the Interior the National Park Service, 



the Indian Service (for Indian forests) , and the General Land 

 Office (relating to the public domain). 



Other federal activities partly concerned with some phases of 

 forestry are the Forest Products Division of the Bureau of Foreign 

 and Domestic Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries, Bureau of Standards, 

 and Census Bureau in the Department of Commerce; the Internal 

 Revenue Bureau of the Treasury Department; and separate agencies, 

 such as the Federal Trade Commission, Smithsonian Institution, and 

 the Tariff Commission (relating to import duties on forest products) . 



Since the inauguration of President Roosevelt in 1933, several new 

 governmental agencies which have great significance in the develop- 

 ment of forestry policies have been established. Among those de- 

 scribed later are the following: 



1. Emergency Conservation Work (Civilian Conservation Crops). 



2. National Recovery Administration (relating to lumber code).* 



3. Tennessee Valley Authority. 



4. Soil Conservation Service. 



5. Plains Shelterbelt Project. 



6. Public Domain Grazing Administration. 



*See Appendix. 



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