1240 A NATIONAL PLAN FOB AMEKICAN FORESTRY 



live should be the ultimate goal. For either purpose, the need is 

 clearly to drive ahead in all lines of activity in order to insure an area 

 of sufficient size being made productive, to build up and maintain 

 growing stocks which will give an annual yield far in excess of present 

 growth, and at the same time to make as far-sighted provisions as 

 possible for other uses such as recreation and watershed protection. 

 The details and costs of such a program are developed in succeeding 

 sections of this report. But even under the most favorable conditions 

 as to public support and effective accomplishment, it is unlikely that 

 a program sufficient to meet the needs for all purposes can be in full 

 operation before the end of the present century. 



