Do this and a comparison of the record of 1912 with that 

 of 1917 will surprise you. 



Shore are 382 "billion foot of standing timber in 

 California ~ Ono hundred "billion is in tho rodvroods and 

 ono hundrod "billion is in the National forests. ~ Uhat is 

 boing dono "by the owners of tho other hundred and oighty- 

 two "billion which is scattered about in and adjacent t 

 the tim"bor we are trying to protect? Practically nothing. 

 Here is a "big field for increasing protection on &ur own 

 timber that I feel has been neglected, T7o are protecting 

 a groat deal of it nov:, hut "by doing so we aro "buttering 

 our protection resources out thin svor the timber wo are 

 responsible for* Assuming private stumpao comprises 50$ 

 of tho total - and assuming that the owners could "bo in- 

 duced to carry their share of the "burden cur "butter could 

 "bo sproad twice as thiclr* 



Hfhoro aro many ways to do this. But the ono best 

 way to got a timber owner is to show him that it pays and 

 to do it by personal tallr ~ not letters. I have several 

 schemes that ought to both push and pull toward an increase 

 in cooperative patrol - But I can only deal in generalities. 

 When it comes to tho actual worliing out of the details of 

 cooperation with any single owner, you are the men who must 



do it. 



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