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be more difficult to protect and manage because of their widespread 

 dispersal among lands not under public control. The conclusion 

 was reached that the probable average cost of protecting, developing, 

 and managing the residual lands would be approximately two thirds 

 of the average actual expenditues per acre on the national forests 

 1923-27. In the 11 eastern States where all of the land was classified 

 as potentially susceptible of private ownership, with no residue de- 

 manding public protection, there would, of course, be no protection 

 costs. In the other States the probable costs per acre of protecting, 

 developing, and managing the residual lands, presupposing the same 

 intensity of protection, development, and management that is given 

 similar types of lands in the national forests, were estimated to be as 

 follows : 



Cents 



California __ 6. 6 



Oregon 6. 34 



Washington 7. 6 



Arizona 1 



Colorado 3. 6 



Nevada 1.4 



New Mexico 2 



Utah 3. 1 



Idaho __ 7.5 



Cents 



Montana 8 



Wyoming 3.66 



South Dakota 7.75 



Nebraska 13 



Michigan 14 



Minnesota 9. 1 



Arkansas 12 



Oklahoma.. _ 20 



TABLE 5. Assumption I Permanent private ownership and consequent taxation 

 of all suitable lands plus State management and protection of residual public 

 lands 1 



i Assumption I is based on figures for Federal fiscal years 1923 to 1927. 



