such forests elsewhere. One hundred thousand 

 dollars of this money was set aside each 

 year to he spent in cooperation with the different 

 states for fire protection on the headwaters of navig- 

 able streams. 



Under this law the government has purchased about 

 a million and a quarter acres of forest in the South- 

 ern Appalachians and White Mountains, and it is 

 hoped that this policy may be continued till all the 

 suitable and available lands in those sections have 

 been purchased. It is very important that these lands 

 should be in the hands of the government and made 

 as productive as possible for it is well recognized 

 that this region must furnish about seventy-five per 

 cent of our future supply of hardwoods. It is the 

 only permanent source of hardwoods outside of the 

 farm woodlots. 



In addition to the establishment of these valuable 

 hardwood forests the aid this appropriation has given 

 to the individual states has proved most valuable. So 

 valuable, in fact, that the U. S. Forester has proposed 

 the introduction of a new bill increasing the funds 

 available for such cooperation to one million dollars 

 in place of the one hundred thousand available in 

 the past. In addition to increasing the appropriation 

 the new bill has a much wider scope than the old 

 Weeks' law. It provides not only for fire prevention, 

 but for forest investigations, forest planting and the 

 control of cuttings. 



This program received the hearty approval of the 

 Atlantic City meeting. Much of this work is quite 

 as important to neighboring States as to the State in 



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