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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



function of the Federal Division of Forestry in its days of small 

 beginnings. In those days the share taken by the States was rela- 

 tively large, partly through the cooperation of botanists attached to 

 State institutions of learning. With the rapid growth of Federal 

 forestry after the turn of the century, however, the tendency was for a 

 time to leave to the Federal Forest Service the research necessary for 

 building up the practice of forestry. This trend was strengthend 

 by the demands made upon the State organizations and funds as 

 they entered upon administrative activities of organized fire protec- 

 tion and in some cases of forest land management. On the other hand, 

 as schools of forestry were established new potential agencies for 

 forest research in the States were created. In the aggregate, the 

 organizations and institutions which can participate in a correlated 

 program make up a rather imposing list. Obviously, the greater the 

 number of agencies the more desirable becomes coordination, with 

 each agency taking the kind of work that it is best fitted to engage in. 

 The following summary of forest research projects active in 1930 

 in New England and New York illustrates how State and Federal 

 agencies may coordinate their work with each other and with that of 

 private organizations. (Table 3.) 



TABLE 3. Distribution of research projects carried on in New England and New 

 York in 1932, among the several agencies conducting them 



Of the 288 investigative projects, 37 percent were being conducted 

 by the forest schools, 10 percent by agricultural colleges and experi- 

 ment stations, 9 percent by other colleges and universities, and 7 

 percent by State forestry departments. Many of the investigations 

 by the forest schools and presumably some also by other colleges and 

 universities are privately endowed, so that the amount of strictly 

 State-supported school research is obscured. Over 63 percent of the 

 work by the forest schools is in forest management or closely related 



