1062 A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Table 3 shows the financial part played by the several cooperating 

 agencies during the fiscal year 1932 by States and groups of States. 

 (To consider the respective shares of the contributing agencies, it is 

 necessary to pass from the calendar-year basis of table 2 to a fiscal- 

 year basis.) 



The total expended by all agencies during the fiscal year 1932 on 

 the cooperative forest fire protection project, $5,943,103 (see table 3, 

 column 10), is larger than any previous fiscal year total except that 

 for the fiscal year 1931, which was $6,710,103. Figure 4 ^indicates 

 the steady upward trend of these expenditures over 5-year intervals. 

 The decrease for 1932, in comparison with 1931, was due to the 

 general difficulty of financing State and private undertakings en- 

 countered during that year, and also to the comparative ease of 

 handling fires during the year. The total budget for the fiscal year 

 1933 shows a further moderate decline under the same influences. 



Columns 12 to 16 of table 3 indicate the extent to which the ex- 

 penditures of the last fiscal year come up to the amounts of the 1930 

 estimates of what is necessary to give adequate protection. In 

 column 16 it may be seen that only a little over 44 percent of expendi- 

 tures thus classed as adequate was actually made by all agencies 

 taken together about 12 percent representing the Federal part and 

 the balance the part of the States and private owners. 



