co-operating owner. But there should be assistance also by 

 the public in the co-operative system on private lands. This 

 is a task for the state governments to furnish the important 

 link in the chain that unites all owneis in a co-ordinate or- 

 ganization. Already many states have undertaken this plan, 

 with the federal goveinnient doing its part on its own lands, 

 and on navigable streams contributing directly to the state 

 work outside of the federal property. The policy is already 

 under way in various places and is producing real results. I 

 urge a rapid extension of the plan, with a still greater em- 

 phasis on the idea of permanence of the system which will 

 justify a larger participation of the public in the whole en- 

 terprise. 



There are . ? (!. 500. (!','!) young trees in the government's forest 

 nurseries. 



t'/'lic biological survey and the forest service have been co-oper-' 

 tiiu/ in the extermination of g round squirrels on national for- 

 sls in California, '/he annual loss of range feed and (/rain crops 

 roni yroitnd sauirrels is enormous. 



Tlie light-house reservations on the Great Lakes are able to 

 ///"<<'<v all t/ie -labile cedar needed for spar buoys in their district. 



The Kaibab and t/ie Coconino national forests adjoin each 

 other. Yet it takes fri;in tico to three days to go front one to 

 the other across ihe Grand Canyon of the Colorado. 



There are several bands of the Persian fat-tailed sheep on the 

 national forests of Southern I'atb. The large fat tail sometimes 

 "weighs as much as forty pounds, and, like the /lump on the camel, 

 is a reserve supply of nourishment when food is lacking. 



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