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Marketing the lower grades of lumber has 

 been the great stumbling block in the 

 practice of forestry. The study made by 

 this committee will make it possible to 

 utilize this poor material to good advan- 

 tage and thus effect a great economy in 

 the higher grades. 



NATIONAL FORESTS IN THE EAST 

 'T'HE National Forest Reservation Com- 

 mission, which authorizes the purchase 

 of lands for Eastern National Forests, at a 

 recent meeting recommended to Congress 

 a continuation of Government purchases of 

 forest land and the appropriation of ade- 

 quate funds to carry on the work. A large 

 number of business and civic organizations 

 have already gone on record in favor of en- 

 larging the National Forest lands in the 

 East. The great importance of the work 

 has been made evident through the report 

 on the Capper resolution submitted to 

 Congress last spring, which showed 81,000,- 

 000 acres of denuded and unproductive tim- 

 ber lands in the United States, while the 

 cut-over area is increasing at the rate of 

 4,000,000 acres a year. 



The commission authorized the extension 

 of the purchase work to Pennsylvania and 

 New York, and the location of a purchase 

 unit on the headwaters of the Allegheny 

 River, with a view to lessening the danger 

 from river floods at Pittsburgh and at other 

 places located below Pittsburgh on the 

 Ohio River. r 4 



The commission has authorized the pur- 

 chase of 11,098 acres of land in the White 

 Mountains and the Southern Appalachians 

 at an average price of $5.04 per acre. The 

 lands approved for purchase lie in New 

 Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Ala- 

 bama and Arkansas. Purchase of 7,000,000 

 feet of spruce timber at $3 per thousand 

 feet was also authorized by the commission. 

 This timber is in the White Mountain Na- 

 tional Forest, New Hampshire, but was 

 reserved from sale at the time the land was 

 purchased. This acquisition will enable ' 

 the Government to control cutting opera- 

 tions upon approximately 1,500 acres of 

 land, thus securing proper forest manage- 

 ment and consideration of public interests. 



NEW ENGLAND TO HELP IN FIGHT 

 FOR NATIONAL PARKS 



r FHROUGH the formation of the New 

 England Conference for Protection of 

 National Parks fresh impetus has been 

 given the fight against the invasion of the 

 National Parks by commerce and their 

 exploitation by private interests. In sum- 

 ming up the question, the New England 

 Conference says : "The purpose of the Na- 

 tional Parks is to preserve forever, in their 

 primitive condition, certain few, widely 

 separated examples of the American wil- 

 derness ; of the original works and pro- 

 cesses of nature; of our native wild animals 

 and birds and plants, living natural lives 

 in the homes of their ancestors. They are 



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