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erable research has been done along the lines of growth studies and 

 the preparation of volume tables. New York contributes more to- 

 ward forest research than any of the other States in the group. The 

 New York State forestry department is active in research, and in 

 addition the State budget provides aid in research through funds 

 allotted the State forest schools at Syracuse and Cornell. New 

 York's State aid in research amount annually to approximately 

 $31,000. 



Of the total amount of State aid provided in the Nation for forest 

 research, 31.4 percent comes from the Middle Atlantic group of 

 States. 



LAKE STATES REGION 



The States in this group comprise Michigan, Minnesota, North 

 Dakota, and Wisconsin. Annual expenditures of State aid to private 

 owners is segregated by projects in table 6. 



Fire protection. State aid in expenditures for fire protection in 

 this group of States is outstanding in that the amount exceeds that 

 in any other group and constitutes 38.9 percent of the total State 

 fire-protection expenditures in all groups. During the 5-year period 

 1927-31, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin together made an 

 average annual expenditure of $94 1 ,804 for fire protection. Michigan 

 leads in the amount of these State expenditures, having spent during 

 the fiscal year 1932, $523,799 with Minnesota and Wisconsin each 

 spending approximately $370,000. The^ greatest amount of State 

 aid provided by any one State in any single year during the past 

 5-year period was by Michigan in 1930, in the amount of $708,086. 



These three States own State forests, parks, public domain, and 

 tax-delinquent forest lands amounting to several million acres, and 

 in the protection expenditures allowance must be made for fire protec- 

 tion on these as well as on privately owned forest properties. From 

 1924 to the end of the fiscal year 1932 Federal, State, and private 

 expenditures for fire protection in the three States have aggregated 

 $8,439,202, segregated as follows: 



The States themselves are taking leadership in fire-control work. 

 Private owners do not contribute funds for forest-fire protection in 

 Michigan and Wisconsin. In Minnesota, where the present private 

 contribution is but 5 percent of the total, financial cooperation from 

 owners is becoming less each year as the commercial forests are 

 harvested. Steady advancement has been made in State participa- 

 tion by all three States, and increases in the States' budgets for fire 

 control have been made from year to year. 



All forest land within the protection districts in Michigan, Minne- 

 sota, and Wisconsin is now being more or less thoroughly protected. 

 It amounts to 55,811,030 acres in the aggregate and is 100 percent 

 of the forest area now estimated as in need of being protected. Hence 



