A NATIONAL PLAN FOE AMERICAN FORESTRY 1585 



organized and coordinated as that proposed for the farm woodland 

 work will be necessary, and wliile the extension foresters in this work 

 will have no county agricultural agents to help, the fact that the 

 individual forest holdings are much larger and that the largest owners 

 may employ foresters of their own or may consult private foresters 

 suggests that a comparatively few men in each State, directed by 

 the State forester and cooperating with the Federal service could 

 start the movement satisfactorily and make real progress during the 

 next 10 years. In any event, they should maintain effective contact 

 and coordination with the farm forestry extension force. 



If, say in 1942, it should appear that the acceptance of good 

 forestry practice bids fair to become general, it is likely that forest 

 owners will need less public assistance and will depend more upon 

 their own resources. At present, however, the States and the Nation 

 as a whole have so much to gain from a widespread improvement in 

 industrial forestry that the public is justified in participating in the 

 effort and in the cost of stimulating it. In providing for the organiza- 

 tion of forestry extension work along these lines, the same principles 

 should prevail that are proposed for setting up a revised farm forestry 

 extension program. The effort should be most intensive where the 

 opportunity is greatest for results of value to the Nation as a whole, 

 that is, in "the regions where, owing to favorable forest-growing and 

 other conditions, the timber development offers the greatest ad- 

 vantage. The following is the suggested working force, by regions. 

 The personnel shown are to be mainly foresters who will specialize 

 in giving advice and assistance to private owners in the preparation 

 of management plans, protection plans, silvicultural work, planting, 

 and utilization, but the plan includes also a limited number of men 

 for the more general forms of extension work. 



Staff needed 



New England 6 



Middle Atlantic 10 



Central 10 



South 40 



Lake - 12 



Rocky Mountain 7 



Pacific Coast 12 



Total 97 



It is estimated that this organization would cost $500,000 per 

 annum. It might logically follow the half -Federal, half-State 

 principle of sharing cost. A more flexible authorization, however, is 

 needed in order to accomplish the extension that is justified, and 

 indeed imperative, in this field. 



ADDITIONAL FEDERAL ORGANIZATION 



Necessary additional extension organization needed in United States 

 Forest Service. To play its part in the national program of forestry 

 extension, the Federal Forest Service will have three distinct lines of 

 responsibility: first, to cooperate with the farm forestry extension 

 work of the Department of Agriculture; second, to cooperate techni- 

 cally and financially with and to coordinate the State forest services 

 in their extension work with industrial forest owners; and third, to 

 maintain a direct extension contact with certain classes of owners 



