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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



985 of this report the opportunities for private forestry were consid- 

 ered and appraised for each important region. 



On the basis of the assumed percentages of forest lands in each 

 region likely to be retained by private owners as given in table 5, the 

 374.7 acres now in private ownership and required in the budget for 

 timber production have been allocated in table 10 into what is likely 

 to remain in private ownership and management and what must 

 necessarily be taken up in public ownership. 



The figures in table 10 were arrived at in the following manner: 

 For each region the percentage shown in table 3 was applied to the 

 areas needed under intensive and extensive forestry. Thus in the 

 northeast region, it is expected that 85 percent will remain in private 

 ownership. The present private lands required in the budget for 

 intensive forestry are 4.5 million acres; therefore, 3.8 million acres is 

 assigned for continued private ownership and 0.7 million acres must 

 be taken up in public ownership. 



TABLE 10. Probable division of acreage now in private ownership as between 

 different kinds of management and private and public ownership 



[Values given in millions of acres] 



Similarly, 11.2 million acres now in private ownership under exten- 

 sive forestry are needed in the budget of which 85 percent are assumed 

 will remain in that category. This gives 9.5 million acres remaining 

 in private ownership, and 1.7 million acres which must be acquired by 

 the public. The same process was followed for all the other regions. 

 For the areas requiring merely protection, it was assumed that for the 

 favorable lands about 50 percent will remain in private status and 50 

 percent in public. For the unfavorable areas, 10 percent was assigned 

 to private 'and 90 percent to public ownership. 



The data in table 10 as far as they allocate probable future owner- 

 ship of lands must be considered only as an approximation and on the 

 assumption that private ownership will be far more affirmatively inter- 

 ested in continuous timber management than it has in the past. 

 Even in the most favorable regions, the present acreage either under 

 intensive or crude forestry is inconsequential when the total allocated 

 in the budget for private endeavor is considered. 



Forestry by private owners under this plan would require the follow- 

 ing distribution of the total of 202.6 million acres: 37.8 million 

 acres in intensive forestry; 145.4 million acres in extensive forestry; 



