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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



SILVICULTURAL REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATION OF CUTTING 



Only two States have adopted compulsory legislation designed to 

 prevent an operator from denuding his own land by cutting. Louis- 

 iana requires an owner or operator cutting timber or bleeding trees for 

 turpentine to leave standing and unbled an average of two seed trees 

 per acre of the kind cut or bled and at least 10 inches in diameter at 

 breast height, on each 10 acres. In New Hampshire, a person cutting 

 pine must leave on every acre (where pine constitutes 75 percent or 

 more of the stand) at least one 10-inch wind-firm pine tree, capable 

 of bearing an abundance of cones. The Mississippi law provides that 

 owners or operators cutting timber or turpentining shall be "en- 

 couraged" to leave standing or unbled an average of one seed tree per 

 acre. Nothing is said as to how the encouragement shall be brought 

 about. 



A few States provide for a certain degree of control over the time, 

 method, and extent of cutting where the owner has been given a quid 



FIGURE 3. States providing for some degree of public control over classified or "auxiliary" forests. 



pro quo in the form of tax concessions (fig. 3). In the main, this 

 control is optional with forest owners, for they do not become subject 

 to it unless they apply to have their lands classified under the tax 

 laws. 1 These forests are classified under various designations, such as 

 "reforestation lands" (Oregon, Idaho, Washington), "forest crop 

 lands" (Wisconsin), "forest plantations" or "native forest lands" 

 (Indiana), " forest lands " (Ohio, Connecticut), " forest reservations " 

 (Iowa), "forested or reforested lands" (New York), "forest, game, 

 fish, or recreation reserves" (Virginia), "young timber lands" (Ver- 

 mont), "classified forest lands" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts), 

 "forestry reserves" (Kentucky), "private forest reservations" and 

 "commercial forest reserves" (Michigan), "commercial forest planta- 

 tions" (Delaware), and "axuiliary forests" (Minnesota, Pennsylva- 



1 Information regarding control over classified forests is based largely on " Digest of forest tax laws in the 

 United States in effect Jan. 1, 1932," Progress Report of Forest Taxation Inquiry, No. 16 (mimeographed). 



