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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



the numerous abstract or intangible benefits which by common 

 consent are recognized as the consequences of sound forest manage- 

 ment but are difficult of quantitative expression; nor does table 7 



FIGURE 2. Graphical representation of extent to which State or county resources available for forest 

 conservation would be reduced or increased under different assumptions as to ownership, as shown in 

 table 7. 



express the values of the actual benefits enjoyed by local land-owners 

 or residents because of national-forest management, as shown in the 

 last column of table 2. 



TABLE 7. Estimated net loss or gain under different assumed forms of private and 

 State ownership of national-forest lands compared with actual total net gain to 

 State and counties for period 192327 



i Assumed private appropriation and ensuing taxation of all present national-forest lands suitable for 

 permanent private management, plus adequate protection and management by States of all national- 

 forest lands remaining or revested in public ownership; returns to States to comprise (a) taxes on privately 

 owned lands and (6) revenues from residual publicly owned lands. 



1 Assumed that without aid from Federal Government, other than free cession of public lands involved, 

 it had been necessary for States to create and administer as State forests what actually were national 

 forests during the period 1923 to 1927, but conceding that the States could have derived 10 percent more 

 revenue and administered the lands at 20 per cent less cost than the Federal Government. 



3 Assumed that without aid from the Federal Government, other than free cession of public lands in- 

 volved, it had been necessary for States to create and administer as State forests what actually were national 

 forests during the period 1923 to 1927; the revenues derived and the costs of administration being identical 

 with the receipts and expenditures under Federal management. 



4 Actual total direct contributions to State or county revenues or development programs derived from 

 or by reason of the national forests during the fiscal years 1923 to 1927. 



