1314 A* NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Timber management: 



Current general administration $215, 000 



Stand betterment 1, 000, 000 



Planting (20-year program) 3 840, 000 



Grazing management: 



Current general administration 50, 000 



Capital investments (10-year program) : 



Range improvements 4 180, 000 



Poisonous plant eradication (progressively from $50,000 



to $500,000) 500, 000 



Rodent control (progressively from $50,000 to $68,000) 68, OQO 



Artificial reseeding of depleted ranges (20-year program) 125, 000 



Recreation: 



Current general administration 100, 000 



Capital investment (5-year program) 450, 000 



Wild life current administration 153, 000 



Lands : Current general administration 64, 000 



Improvements: 



Development roads ( 1 0-year program) 5 1, 500, 000 



Trails (10 year program) 6 40,000 



Miscellaneous improvements (5-year program) 300, 000 



Forest highways 3, 300, 000 



SEGREGATION OF CAPITAL-INVESTMENT AND CURRENT-CHARGE 



INCREASES 



Forestry, from its very nature as a long-time enterprise, requires 

 heavy initial expenditures in capital investments to put the property 

 into shape for producing continuous and sustained incomes. In 

 timber production, for example, a proper distribution of growing 

 stock must be attained so that continuous cropping can be assured, 

 which can contribute amply towards all current expenditures. 



Both the western national forests, which in the main are the rem- 

 nants left after the best timber both in quality and accessibility had 

 been privately acquired, and the eastern national forests, which are 

 largely made up of culled-over forests, poorly stocked cut-over areas, 

 and only partially productive lands, are producing only a small 

 fraction of their potential capacity in income and in other public 

 benefits. The greater portion of expenditures up to the present time 

 has therefore been devoted to capital investments, for improvements 

 and better protection of these forests. These appropriations, both 

 for capital investment and current administrative needs, have been 

 progressively increased, but they still fall considerably short of what 

 must be spent to bring the property to something approaching its 

 full potential capacity for returns. 



In considering costs, it is important, particularly in the initial 

 stages when a forest property is being converted from a poor income 

 producer to a sustained-yield producer, to distinguish between capital 

 investments and current administrative charges. Ordinarily current 

 administration and protection charges will be covered by income even 

 on a poor forest; but expenditures for capital investments must be 

 recognized and accepted as an investment to insure future returns 

 and income. 



For the purpose of illustrating and analyzing these two distinct 

 classes of costs, the national-forest appropriations for the fiscal year 

 1933 have been segregated between capital investments and current 

 charges. 



3 The amount needed annual is $1,050,000 from which $210,000 now appropriated has been deducted. 



4 This excludes outlay now made in the form of contributed time by forest officers. 



4 Development roads and trails. The amount here given is the new annual total recommended. 



