A NATIONAL PLAN FOB AMERICAN FORESTRY 



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RESEARCH EXPENDITURES 



The growth of the appropriations for Forest Service research from 

 1915 to the present is shown graphically in figure 1. From less than 

 $300,000 in 1915, the total expenditures reached a maximum of 

 nearly $1,800,000 in 1932, dropping to $1,667,000 in 1933. Since 

 1928, most of the research has been developed under the provisions 

 of the McSweeney-McNary Forest Research Act, which embodies the 

 scope and financial plan. Exceptions are the work on the relation of 

 forests to erosion and stream flow, which is carried under the item for 

 soil-erosion investigations in the appropriation act for the Department 

 of Agriculture, and the studies of forest taxation and insurance, which 



THOUSAND 



DOLLARS 



1800 



1500 



1200 



900 



600 



300 



1915 1920 1925 1930 1935 



FIGURE 1. Appropriations for forest research by the Federal Forest Service, 1915-33. 



are covered under the Clark-McNary Act. A proposed extension of 

 the McSweeney-McNary Act to cover erosion stream flow investiga- 

 tions is discussed under the section Research in the United States 

 Forest Service. 



Between 1915 and 1932, the funds available for the Forest Products 

 Laboratory increased from $130,744 to $534,430. The forest experi- 

 ment stations received in 1921 a total allotment of less than $50,000 

 and in 1932, including appropriations for the forest taxation inquiry, 

 they received $1,048,580, a twenty fold increase. 



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