A NATIONAL PLAN FOE AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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Of the total area recommended 177 million acres are in the East 

 and 47 million in the West. 



Kapid exploitation of the remaining virgin stands is under way in 

 the West. To prevent the repetition of the depletion of forest capital, 



PRESENT COMMERCIAL OWNERSHIP 



PROPOSED OWNERSHIP 



PRESENT .NONCOMMERCIAL OWNERSHIP 



PROPOSED OWNERSH P 



200 300 



MILLION ACRES 



100 

 Public Ownership 



Private Ownership 



FIGURE 25. Present and proposed ownership of commercial and noncommercial forest land. The in- 

 crease in public ownership of commercial land from 99 to 293 million acres is to meet combined timber 

 growing, watershed protection, recreation, and economic and social requirements. 



25 



50 

 PER CENT 



Public 



75 



Private 



100 



FIGURE 26. The timber-growing job. The best assurance of meeting future timber requirements is for 

 the public to take over a much larger share of the job than the present 10 percent or less. The area of 

 commercial land recommended will make possible the half shown in the diagram. 



which has been universal throughout the East under private owner- 

 ship, public acquisition of at least 90 .billion board feet is justified. 

 Investments should be self -liquidating; wholly disregarding public 

 losses, the cost of rehabilitation of wrecked forest land would be 



