FOREST POLICY. 15 



In America, one of the leading questions before the public 

 is the extent to which the federal government should be a forest 

 owner within the individual states. It is obvious that the state 

 of New York would resent the establishment by the federal 

 government of a huge national forest in the Adirondacks. The 

 western states, like Wyoming or Washington, have the natural 

 desire to exercise their rights of eminent domain over the entirety 

 of the state ; and are opposed to any federal control of the forests 

 found within the limits of the state as much as the state of New 

 York would be opposed to such control. The question in America 

 is not, it seems, a question of private forestry versus public 

 forestry: it is a question rather, for the time being, of state for- 

 estry versus national forestry. 



