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ment is already under way. The plan, however, requires considerable 

 intensification of management even on the publicly owned lands. It 

 is assumed that the degree of management required in the plan will be 

 applied to the present publicly owned lands susceptible of and avail- 

 able for such treatment. If these areas are deducted from the total 

 areas set up in the budget, the remainder represents the areas for 

 which further provision of management must be made. In Table 9 

 these data are given for the several forest regions. 



If the 84.6 million acres now in public ownership are handled accord- 

 ing to the plan, there still remains 374.7 million acres which likewise 

 require specific forms of management. This means that in addition 

 to what can be accomplished on lands now publicly owned, intensive 

 forestry must be practiced on 62.3 million acres, extensive forestry on 

 243.3 million acres, and in addition adequate fire protection on another 

 69.2 million acres. The question must be asked: How far can de- 

 pendence be placed on private capital and ownership to initiate and 

 carry out a substantial part of such a plan? 



TABLE 9. Total area needing different kinds of management, after deducting 

 present public forests, by regions 



[Value given in millions of acres] 



The task of providing continuous management for timber produc- 

 tion on 374.7 million acres of forest land is a huge one. Private hold- 

 ers of stump age and the farmer with his farm wood lot must be de- 

 pended on to contribute a large share to the undertaking even if 

 public agencies. greatly expand their present efforts. How far private 

 enterprise can go depends not only on present trends, but on the po- 

 tential opportunities for industrial and farm forestry. On pages 89 1 to 



