A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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timber-sale policy on the national forests restricts the revenue from 

 this source. Hence many exchange possibilities of a most favorable 

 nature in the public interest have to be passed by for lack of means 

 wherewith to take advantage of them. 



FIGURE 2. Areas involving public domain proposed by Forest Service as additions to existing national 

 forests or for establishment of new national forests would result in more closely approximating the 

 logical boundaries as determined by natural conditions. 



One means of accelerating the progress of exchanges lies in author- 

 izing the use of the unreserved public domain as trading stock for 

 national-forest exchanges. There are opportunities in the public 

 interest to acquire private land within national-forest boundaries if 

 public domain land could be traded for it. Legislative action to this 

 end would be desirable. 



