elude much of the mountain region in New Hamp- 

 shire, Maine and Vermont. 



''We already have some technical knowledge of the 

 best methods for growing the pulp timbers of the 

 Northeast and the Lake States, enough to begin intel- 

 ligently; but a great deal of investigative work re- 

 mains to be done. If the pulp industry of the North- 

 east is to be perpetuated in anything approximating 

 its present size, the entire forest area of the region 

 must be utilized to the limit of its productive capacity. 

 This is hardly less true of the Lake States. Forest 

 experiment stations alone will, in any reasonable time, 

 furnish the required knowledge of the best methods 

 of cutting, planting, production, and the various other 

 steps- in such intensive timber growing. Bills now 

 pending in both the Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives provide for experiment stations on the White 

 Mountain National Forest in New England and in 

 Minnesota. 



"Protection of forests from fire is perhaps the most 

 important single requirement in the growing of timber. 

 Twenty-four States are receiving co-operation. These 

 States expend yearly for fire protection upwards of 

 $625,000, and private owners of forest land within 

 their borders expend in normal years approximately 

 a like amount. The Federal appropriation is but 

 $100,000, which is entirely inadequate. This amount 

 has remained unchanged since 1915, in spite of the 

 fact that the number of co-operating States has in- 

 creased from 18 to 24, and the cost of the work has 

 practically doubled. The national policy of forestry 

 advocated by the Forest Service contemplates a large 



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