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A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



Adequate insect control would involve increases from the present 

 allotment of $50,000 to $75,000, which after 5 years might need to 

 be increased to $150,000 annually. 



INDIAN SERVICE (DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR) 



The program for adequate administration of Indian reservation 

 forest lands contemplates (1) completion of an adequate system of 

 fire protection, including needed capital expenditures for improve- 

 ments: (2) better protection of forests from insects and disease; 



(3) completion of an adequate system of roads and trails for protec- 

 tion, administration, and management of Indian forest lands; and 



(4) increased funds for a larger personnel, increased supervision, and 

 a more intensive management of all lorest work in the Indian Service. 



The legislative program for the Indian reservation forest lands 

 should provide (1) for discontinuing the present practice of allotting 

 forest and range lands to individual Indians: (2) for the creation by 

 law of Indian forests on the several reservations having large areas 

 of tribal land; and (3) for increased appropriations for all forestry 

 work. 



Estimated annual expenditures for the first 5 years of this program, 

 covering administration and management of Indian forests, are given 

 in table 4. 



TABLE 4. Estimated expenditures in a 5-year program on Indian reservation 



forests 



BIOLOGICAL SURVEY (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE) 



In order to carry out adequately the needed experiments and inves- 

 tigations for determining the life histories and habits of forest ani- 

 mals, birds, and wild life, as authorized by the McSweeney-McNary 

 Act, the current appropriation of $20,000 for the fiscal year 1933, 

 should be increased up to the amounts authorized in the act, reaching 

 a maximum of $150,000 in 1938. Thereafter, funds should be pro- 

 vided as needed. 



Range-destroying rodents which live on herbaceous and shrubby 

 vegetation are causing excessive losses in range-forage values over 

 large areas within the national forests. It is estimated that there 

 are about 8 million acres now infested with these pests, requiring 

 application of control measures. Other rodents cause severe damage 

 to tree growth. Porcupines are preventing the establishment of new 

 forest growth over large areas, particularly in the ponderosa pine type. 

 The Biological Survey estimates that, in order to obtain adequate 

 rodent control in the national forests, annual expenditures should be 

 increased from the present amount of $50,000 to $116,000 for about 

 5 years, that for a second 5-year period annual expenditures of ap- 



