A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 1557 



Financial plan for Forest Service research for the decade 1935-44 l 



1 All dates refer to fiscal years ending June 30. 



2 The efficiency of the survey will be greatly increased if maximum annual expenditures authorized by the 

 McSweeney-McNary Act ($250,000) are reached by the fiscal year 1935 and are increased by new legislation 

 to $500,000 for 1937 and thereafter until survey expenditures total $3,000,000. The three annual increases 

 suggested to reach the maximum of $500,000 are $80,000 in 1935, $125,000 in 1936, and $125,000 in 1937. 



3 New legislation will be needed. 



For the last three subjects listed in the table, financial authoriza- 

 tions beyond those provided by the present McSweeney-McNary 

 Act are recommended. Appropriations for erosion-streamflow in- 

 vestigations were not specifically authorized in the McSweeney-Mc- 

 Nary Act. A bill to authorize such appropriations that is now before 

 Congress will be discussed later in this section. Secondly, the 

 efficiency of the forest survey depends largely upon speed of execu- 

 tion. Within the limit of $3,000,000 set up for the survey by the 

 McSweeney-McNary Act, a doubling of the present authorized annual 

 expenditures would greatly increase its effectiveness. A third subject 

 is forest land classification. Forest lands are an important factor in 

 the national land-use problem which has risen to serious proportions 

 within recent years, and forest land classification is correspondingly 

 important as an aid in its solution. Participation of the Forest 

 Service in forest-land aspects of classification can be provided by 

 amendment of the McSweeney-McNary Act or as a part of a general 

 authorization for all classes of lands. 



These three subjects are discussed at greater length under their 

 respective titles in the review of Forest Service investigative activities 

 which follows. 



FOREST MANAGEMENT 



The central objective of forest-management research is to determine 

 the conditions and efficient technical methods for raising timber as a 

 crop. Its field includes methods of cutting timber or utilizing it for 

 such products as naval stores in such a way as to perpetuate and 

 improve the stand, growing and planting forest trees, protecting 

 forests from fire and evaluating fire damage, increasing the value of 

 stands by cultural methods, determining and forecasting timber 

 growth rates, compiling tables to show the volumes of trees and the 

 yields of timber stands of different sizes and ages, and other subjects, 

 research on which is of fundamental value to forestry. The results 



