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the enactment of thorough legislation as that pro- 

 posed, that there is but little hope for it. 



It takes a giant, or rather two giants combined, 

 strengthened by the courage of conviction that this 

 is an urgent matter to be acted upon, to carry through 

 the flood of legislative streams any measure involv- 

 ing radical changes in the existing land policy. It 

 is the tremendous momentum of bad habits, unfair 

 usage, and personal politics, that must be overcome, 

 to make a rational forest policy possible. 



