1540 A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



tion of public lands will become more prominent. A program that 

 will safeguard timber and other forest values and aid in livestock pro- 

 duction includes: (1) Control of fire; (2) control of grazing by hogs, 

 especially in the longleaf pine belt; and (3) coordination of forest 

 range use with use of improved pastures and of forage crops on farms. 

 This program would be advanced by ultimate Federal acquisition 

 of about 78 million acres and State acquisition of 19K million acres 

 of private land in the South for timber production and watershed 

 protection, recommended in the section of this report entitled "The 

 Probable Future Distribution of Forest Land Ownership." In 

 many of the southern States legislative provision would be necessary 

 for the organization of these lands into State forests and for their 

 administration and management. On forest land remaining in 

 private ownership, education and demonstration will be the principal 

 means of correcting practices detrimental to timber production and 

 obtaining coordination of the use of forest lands with that of agricul- 

 tural lands to assure the most beneficial use of all the feed resources. 

 In some States, for satisfactory timber production, legislation may 

 be required to prevent trespass on large private forest holdings. 



FARM WOODLANDS 



The greater portion of the grazed farm woodlands in the Central 

 States, Lake States, Middle Atlantic, and New England regions will 

 remain in private ownership. In these regions the individual owner 

 should decide what is the most profitable use of his farm woodland 

 and, accordingly either exclude livestock, admit livestock to a small 

 portion of the woodland for shade but exclude it from the remainder, 

 or admit livestock to the area only for such a period and in such 

 numbers as wih 1 permit sustained yield of timber and forage. Safe- 

 guarding forest regeneration and other forest values will require 

 research and education. 



In these regions grazing on public forest lands is ordinarily light. 

 It is probable that grazing use will be light on many of the forest 

 areas acquired by public agencies for watershed protection or timber 

 production. Feed resources on farm land are so abundant and grazing 

 values on forest lands so low that use of public forest land by domestic 

 livestock should be restricted to such areas as can be grazed without 

 detriment to other forest values. 



RESEARCH 



Experience and the comparatively small amount of research done 

 to date have developed many improved practices in the use of forest 

 range lands, which make for greater stability in use and for increased 

 revenues to offset any increase in production costs resulting from 

 increased settlement, range deterioration, and more intensive man- 

 agement. Much still needs to be learned with respect to coordinating 

 the use of forest range forage with the conservation and use of other 

 resources and with respect to utilizing the important forage plants 

 in a manner that avoids danger of deterioration and tends to improve 

 depleted forage cover. 



In plans for research bearing on the management of forest range 

 lands, emphasis should be placed on breaking down the broader 

 problems of plant succession, soil productivity, physiological response 



