1632 A NATIONAL PLAN FOB AMEEICAN FORESTRY 



AID TO STATES AND PRIVATE OWNERS 



An amendment to section 4 of the Clarke-McNary Act (43 Stat. 

 653) to broaden the scope of the act so that its provisions for aid in 

 forest planting will benefit all landowners and to provide for increasing 

 from $100,000 to $350,000 the amount that may be appropriated 

 annually for this purpose. 



An amendment to section 5 of the Clarke-McNary Act (43 Stat. 

 653) to broaden the scope of the act so that its provisions for forest 

 extension will benefit all landowners. It should also provide for in- 

 creasing from $100,000 to $400,000 the amount that may be appro- 

 priated annually for aid to the States in carrying on State extension 

 work, of which $150,000 should be made available to the Forest 

 Service for work with timber land owners other than farmers, and 

 also authorize an additional $225,000 for direct expenditure by the 

 Forest Service in forest extension work. 



An amendment to the Clarke-McNary Act to provide for coopera- 

 tive financial aid to States and private owners in the control of insect 

 attacks upon State and private forests, and authorization for expendi- 

 ture of funds for the purpose to the extent of $250,000 annually. 



Legislation is needed authorizing the Bureau of Plant Industry, 

 through its Blister Rust Division, to cooperate in the control of forest 

 diseases, other than the white pine blister rust disease. 



INDIAN RESERVATION FOREST LANDS 



Needed legislation for Indian reservation forest land 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) increased appropriations for all forestry work. 



WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



Legislation authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture and the Secre- 

 tary of Commerce to provide expert assistance to Federal, State, and 

 other agencies in rearing, stocking, and increasing the supply of game 

 and fur-bearing animals and fish; in combating disease, and in devel- 

 oping a Nation-wide program of game conservation, and rehabilita- 

 tion, and to cooperate with such agencies to that end. Such legisla- 

 tion is embodied in "An act to promote the conservation of wild life, 

 fish and game, and other purposes" (S. 263, 72d Cong.), passed by 

 the Senate December 17, 1931. 



Legislation providing for consideration of the effect of the construc- 

 tion of any public works or improvements upon the replacement and 

 conservation of wild life, embodied in a bill, S. 5813, Seventy-first 

 Congress, passed by the Senate January 26, 1931. 



FINANCING THE PROGRAM 



The expenditures needed to carry out the foregoing program fall 

 into two classes, which suggest and perhaps indicate different methods 

 of financing. Except for very small holdings such as farmer's wood- 

 lots, forestry involves the setting up of organized forest units, each 

 of which is a going business project in itself. As such it is run like 



