1616 A NATIONAL PLAN FOR AMERICAN FORESTRY 



A greatly enlarged forest-planting program such as that proposed 

 for public and private agencies requires aid in securing sufficient seed 

 supplies and all agencies should be protected against inferior seed or 

 seed unsuited to the locality where it is planted. This can best be 

 attained if the Federal Government as a form of public aid will 

 supply of a seed testing and certification service, the cost of which 

 is estimated at $50,000 per year. Legislative authority to conduct 

 the work and appropriation of funds is needed. 



FOREST INSECTS 



In insect control work the Federal Government now assists the 

 States and private timberland owners by conducting control work 

 where serious insect epidemics threaten. Legislation authorizing 

 Federal cooperation to the extent of $250,000 annually for cooperative 

 survey and local insect-control work on State and private lands is 

 needed. Appropriations should begin at $50,000, increasing in a 

 5-year period to $250,000 annually, or as rapidly as private and State 

 cooperative funds are made available. Further increases may later 

 be found necessary for adequate control. 



FOREST EXTENSION 



Advice on the ground is one of the most effective forms of aid that 

 the Government can give to private owners. The work can probably 

 best be handled through a special advisory service similar to that 

 whereby the Federal Government and the States cooperate in main- 

 taining extension foresters in farm forestry. 



At present the Federal cooperative forest-extension activities are 

 limited by the Clarke-McNary Act to farmers. The Federal co- 

 operative effort for the most part fails to reach a large class of other 

 private owners who actually own 270 million acres of forest land. 

 Needed expansion of this work will necessitate an amendment to the 

 Clarke-McNary law providing authorization for increased expendi- 

 tures for the purpose and broadening the scope of the act to benefit all 

 forest landowners. It is estimated that $625,000 will be needed for all 

 Federal extension activities. Of this $225,000 should be available 

 the direct forest-extension work by the Forest Service; $150,000 

 additional should be provided the Forest Service to match State 

 funds for work with timber landowners other than farmers; and a 

 maximum of $250,000 should be provided ($100,000 at present) to be 

 used annually to match expenditures by the States for farm forest 

 extension through the Extension Service (Clarke-McNary law, sec. 5). 

 Total funds for these three purposes should be increased progressively 

 from $200,000 the first year to $625,000 the tenth year, and $625,000 

 annually thereafter. 



FOREST RESEARCH 



Earlier sections of this report have recommended an enlarged 

 Federal forest-research program. 



Forest research has been hopelessly inadequate for the forestry 

 effort of the past and work on the present scale would be even more 

 so for the greatly enlarged effort recommended by this report. 



The Federal Government's responsibility for adequate forest- 

 research covers not only the problems with which the Federal Govern- 

 ment is confronted in the management of Federal forest lands, but 



