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National Resources Committee 



Cooperative Sustaiiu-il-Yield Units, or (6) wliicli in 

 oriviitc ownei-slii]) will not receive suitable nianii<j:enient. 



4. Loijislation enabling the States of the Region 

 untler tlie terms of the Federal "Fulnier Act" to enter 

 into agreement with the United States for the purchase, 

 management and development of State forests. 



5. Amendment of taxation system to extent neces- 

 sary to remove unreasonable obstacles to sound man- 

 agement of private forests, including action designed 

 to encourage sustained-yield forest management. 



6. Legislation providmg for the transfer of county 

 foreclosed tax-delinquent nonagricultural forest lands 

 to the State to be numaged as State forests. (Similar 

 to Washington Act.) 



7. Legislation, authorizing the zoning of rural lands, 

 whereby lands primarily valuable for forest purposes 

 may be so designated, and nonconforming uses therein 

 restricted and regulated in a nuumer designed to pro- 

 mote sound forest practice, public health, safety and 

 general welfare. 



8. Legislation authorizing States, counties or other 

 minor political subdivisions to exchange lands with 

 other owners with purpose of consolidating their forest 

 holdings. 



9. Legislation authorizing the States (a) to a<lminis- 

 ter forest areas primarily or preeminently valuable for 

 aesthetic or recreational use, such as the borders of 

 principal highways, river and lake shores, and recrea- 

 tional centers, so as to safeguard these values, and (6) 

 to acquire such lands by exchange, purchase, donation 

 or otherwise. 



10. Legislation directing that all State-owned lands 

 chiefly valuable for the production of forest crops be 

 protected and managed for contuiuous forest produc- 

 tivity; antl, where necessary, that legislatures seek to 

 obtain from the Congress such amendment of grant 

 acts or other pertinent statutes as nuiy permit such 

 State legislation or action. 



Recommended Action to be Taken by Private 

 Forest Land Owners and Operators, and by 

 Forest Industries 



1. Improve and coutiiuip to apply and to nuike 

 progress in the skill of ajjplication of the "Forest Prac- 

 tice Rules" developed by the industry under Article X 

 and Schedule C of the Lumber Code. The Forest 

 Practice Rules provide in detail for measures {a) to 

 secure fire protection during and immediately following 

 logging [with specific provision for (1) spark arresters, 

 (2) connnunication system, (3) patrol, (4) fire fighting 

 equipment, prevention of (5) friction fires and (6) 



blasting fires, (7) smoking in the woods, (8) organized 

 prevention, detection and sujjpression of fires, (9) 

 forecasts of dangerous fire weather, (10) falling of 

 snags, disposal of (11) especially hazardous inflammable 

 debris and (12) ordinary logging debris, (13) fighting 

 logging fires, and (14) correlation of the logging opera- 

 tion protection system with the general protection 

 system]; (6) to secure extension and coordination of 

 cooperation in protection against fire, insects and dis- 

 ease; (c) to secure the conservation of immature trees 

 and young growth from unnecessary logging damage; 

 and ((/) to secure the restocking of the land after logging 

 (wdth specific provision for adeciuate seed supply from 

 seed trees, partial cutting, areas of uncut timber, direct 

 seeding or for planting). 



2. With technical guidance, carefully study individ- 

 ual forest properties and operations with the objects, 

 (a) of developing forest plans and practices most suit- 

 able to the local contlitions, {b) of applying selective 

 logging in forest types which permit, and also of apply- 

 ing the ])rinciples of "sustained yield" under circum- 

 stances which make it practicable, and (c) of developing 

 a sound land ownership policy and thus to increase the 

 area under stable management. Li drawing contracts 

 for the sale of timber, m cases in which the land is 

 reserved from sale, include clauses providing for the 

 application of the "Forest Practice Rules." 



3. Make provision, so far as practicable, either on 

 their own resources or in cooperation with Federal and 

 State agencies, for the protection of their forest hold- 

 ings against jireventable losses from insects and plant 

 diseases. 



4. Conduct research in manufacture anrl utilization 

 to lend stability to their industries, to improve tech- 

 niques and to increase the usefulness and distribution of 

 their products. Conduct an aggressive trade promo- 

 tion campaign to maintain and extend wood use in 

 competition with substitutes. 



5. Aid in securing the State and Federal legislation 

 recommended in this program; carry on sustained 

 efforts to inform the public about the problems involved 

 ai^d about practicable solutions. 



Recommended Action to be Taken by Others 



{a) Economic or social groujjs (not directly engaged 

 in forest operations) including the following: Railroads, 

 agriculture, banks, mines, labor, service clubs, chambers 

 of commerce, grazing, recreation, wildlife, conservation 

 of forests, soil and water, etc., etc. 



(6) Members of the general public. 



1. Study this program carefidly, and, for the common 

 good, assist in putting it into effect. 



