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lands should be acquired for the additional purpose of future production 

 of lumber and other products, and of establishing demonstration areas 

 and centers of federal co-operation with states and private owners. These 

 federal forests should be distributed in all forest regions of the country. 



The states should establish public forests with the same general 

 objectives as the federal forests and with special reference to the local 

 economic and industrial needs. Several of our states have already outlined 

 a definite program of acquisition toward which they are working as fast 

 as money can be supplied. Thus the officers of Pennsylvania, which 

 already own over one million acres, have a program for acquiring over 

 four million acres more. New York has an ambitious program and is 

 adding to her forests rapidly. Massachusetts is endeavoring to secure 

 some two hundred and fifty thousand acres, and other states are making 

 progress along the same line. Indiana has made an excellent beginning. 

 It is hoped that it will be possible to secure the dunes for a great recre- 

 ation park, and I hope that the movement also may extend to acquiring 

 larger public areas within the other forest regions of the State. The 

 establishment of well located state forests in Illinois and Ohio would 

 grea tly stimulate the interest in forestry and aid in securing better hand- 

 ling of private woods. 



Every encouragement should also be given to municipalities to acquire 

 public forests and woodland parks. The municipality or community forest 

 is a great factor in European countries. Their benefit has been con- 

 spicuously demonstrated. Many cities and towns in this country already 

 have public woodlnads. The movement should be greatly extended. 



Private Forests. The safeguarding and perpetuation of forests on 

 private lands are possible through an organized system of fire protection, 

 through the prohibition of destructive processes that produce waste lands, 

 and through the promotion of constructive and entirely practical measures 

 of forestry. The participation, liberal co-operation and direction of the 

 public in working out the problems involved is essential to success. 



Fire Protection. Effective fire protection is achieved only through a 

 joint undertaking between public and private agencies in which all 

 lands, regardless of ownership, are brought under an organized system. 

 Necessarily conditions in different states vary widely. In these central 

 states the requirements are quite different from those in Minnesota, 

 Oregon, Maine, or Louisiana. 



In general there should be incorporated in the forest laws of the State 

 requirements to bring all forest owners into the protective system, and 

 to extend it to all cut-over and unimproved lands in the State not needed 

 for agriculture, together with the disposal, by lopping or burning, of 

 dangerous slashings and other special measures that the local conditions 

 may require. 



There should be provided by the State the administrative machinery 

 necessary to carry out the work effectively. 



The public should share in the burden of protection. The division 

 of cost will -necessarily vary in different states, as is now the case 

 among those states which have inaugurated such a system. The public 

 may properly bear the cost of the State-wide patrol system, including 





