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Tliat all goes to show that the infection there is of comparative! v 

 recent origin. 



I would like to bring out that at the present time plans for handling 

 the Pacific coast region have not been decided upon. It is possible 

 that the infections are so scattering and so recent that an eradication 

 campaign could be carried out. That was our hope at the very- 

 beginning of the season. Then, as more and more counties were found 

 infected, we became rather doubtful of the feasibility of an eradica- 

 tion campaign. The continuation of inspection work has not sho\s'n a 

 very wide spread of the disease, however, not as wide as we had been 

 led to suppose by the findings of midseason. The question of whether 

 an eradication campaign may be feasible I believe is still an open 

 question. An important conierence is now being held, or will be held 

 in a very short time, in Portland, at which both the Canadian and 

 Western States' representatives and people of our bureau will review 

 all of the information available, and the character of support that 

 could be obtained from commercial holders of pine, as well as to 

 again review the magnitude of the Federal interests in the national 

 forests that are likely to be jeopardized; and at that time a more 

 comprehensive plan for the future will V)e outlined, and if possible 

 agreed upon by all of the parties concerned. 



At the present time, you will recall, that the current appropriation 

 is supplemented by a portion of an emergency appropriation that is 

 available during the greater part of the present fiscal year. Approxi- 

 mately $100,000 of an emergency appropriation given to the bureau 

 because of this unexpected discovery of white-pine infection in the 

 Northwest, is available until March of this present vear. giving us in 

 this item S300,000 to work with instead of the S200,b00 that is shown 

 in the appropriation bill. 



Whether it will appear advisable to ask for funds to continue some 

 of the general eradication plans that we had at first proposed for the 

 Northwest, or whether the campaign can not possibly be developed 

 on an eradication basis and must remain t)n an educational basis, I 

 think will determine whether the present funds are sufficient for all of 

 the blister-rust wprk that we need to carry on as far as the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry is concerned, or whether it Woukl bo advisable to pro- 

 vide additional funds for taking care of the Federal and other inter- 

 ests in the Northwest. 



Mr. Anderson. How much is going to be spent in this Puget 

 Sound situation now for inspection and other work 3'ou are doing { 



NEED OF INCREASED FUNDS FOR EXTENSIVE ER.\DIC.\TION CAMP.MrtN'. 



Doctor Ket.lerman. During this fiscal year anproximately 

 $100,000 will be expended for blister-rust work in the Northwest. 



Mr. Anderson. An eradication campaign, of course, would involve 

 a considerably larger sum of money ^ 



Doctor Kkllerm.\n. That would undinibtcdly involve a somewhat 

 larger sum than weare spending there now. although 1 doubt whether 

 it would need to be very much greater. 1 would estimate somewhere 

 between S2()0,()()0 and S-"500.0()0 as nec^essary for an effective erjulica- 

 tion cami)aigii, which would hav^e to include scouting. 



Mr. Anderson. You in(>an for that area alone? 



Doctor Kkli.eilman. For the nvon including the .States of Wash- 

 ington, Idaho, and Oregon. 



