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a sustained yield has been fully demon- 

 strated, according to the Forest Service, 

 but the lumber needs of the State will re- 

 quire a very much larger acreage than this. 



SUMMER HOMES ON THE 

 NATIONAL FORESTS 



'"PHAT the use of the National Forests 

 for recreational purposes is increasing 

 rapidly and bids fair to rank third among 

 the major services performed by the Na- 

 tional Forests, with only timber produc- 

 tion and stream-flow regulation taking pre- 

 cedence over it, is the statement made by 

 Colonel W. B. Greeley, head of the Forest 

 Service, in his annual report. Many sum- 

 mer homes are being erected on the Na- 

 tional Forests by private individuals, and 

 the use of forests for other forms of out- 

 of-door recreation was greater during the 

 past year than ever before. 



The summer home business promises to 

 become an important source of revenue, 

 Colonel Greeley points out. On the An- 

 geles Forest in southern California, for ex- 

 ample, a total of 1,329 permits for summer 

 residences and commercial resorts were, 

 he says, in effect at the close of the past 

 fiscal year. The revenue from this one 

 item amounted to approximately $22,000. 

 It is believed that within a few years' the 

 revenues obtained from the various recre- 

 ational settlements within the Angeles For- 

 est will pay the entire cost of protection 

 and administration. 



A MECHANICAL MONSTER 

 A gigantic machine, with jaws which open 

 to take in timber or assembled wood 

 structures 30 feet in height and which can 

 crush them like egg shells when the jaws 

 close together again, has recently been 

 erected at the Forest Products Labora- 

 tory at Madison, Wisconsin, says the 

 United States Forest Service. 



This machine is to be used for testing 

 very large wooden columns. It is possible 

 to exert a force of a million pounds with 

 it, and it is built to crush a wooden post a 

 foot square. Its great range of testing 

 speeds enables it to apply its tremendous 

 load with the fatiguing slowness of a build- 

 ing settling on its foundation timbers or 

 with the speed of a train dashing onto a 

 wooden trestle. 



PENNSYLVANIA TO REFOREST 

 rpHE Pennsylvania Department of 

 Forestry expects to grow about 15,- 

 000,000 trees for reforesting 10,000 acres 

 of waste land in this State from the seed 

 it is planting in its forest tree nurseries 

 this spring. The Department has collected 

 700 pounds of white pine, hemlock, and 

 black locust seed, and 260 bushels of black 

 walnuts, acorns, and ash and maple seeds. 

 Six hundred and sixty pounds of pine, 

 spruce, and larch seed have been purchased 

 by the Department. 



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 towering, sun-kissed, snow-capped mountain peaks and forests America s water- 

 sheds on the backbone of the continent God-made parks with man-made auto roads 

 and trails, beautiful pine-clad canyons, gorges, glaciers, glorious sunsets, wild 

 flowers, giant trees, trout streams, hidden lakes, geysers, pre-historic animals, ruins 

 of Cliff Dwellers and Aztecs. A description would bankrupt the English language. 

 The human eye only can reproduce them; they must be seen to be appreciated. As 

 National Parks, Monuments and Forests the United States is preserving their 

 natural glory and usefulness as a heritage for all generations to see and use for 

 rest, recreation, vacation and pleasure. Rocky Mountain National Park, the nearest 

 and most popular National Park, Mesa Verde National Park, the Cliff Dweller 

 ruins of Ancient America, and fifteen National Forests are in Colorado. 



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COOPERATIVE FIRE PROTECTION. 

 Sec. 12. That the Secretary is hereby author- 

 ized and directed to recommend for each forest 

 region of the United States the essential require- 

 ments in protecting timber and cut-over lands 

 from fire, and is further authorized, on such con- 

 ditions as he may determine to be fair and rea- 

 sonable in each State, to cooperate with the va- 

 rious States duly adopting his recommenda- 

 tions and through them with private and other 

 agencies, in bringing into effect such essential re- 

 quirements favorable for forest protection. In 

 no case, other than for preliminary investiga- 

 tions, shall the amount expended by the Federal 

 Government in any State during any fiscal year 

 under this section exceed the amount expended 

 by the State for the same purpose during the 

 same fiscal year, including the expenditures of 

 forest owners required by State law and ap- 

 proved by the proper State officials; and the Sec- 

 retary is directed to withhold cooperation from 

 States which do not comply in legislation and 

 in administrative practice with such recommend 

 ations as shall be made in accordance with this 

 section. 



APPROPRIATION. 



Sec. 13. That appropriations are hereby author- 

 ized to be made annually, out of any money in 

 the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be 

 available until expended unaer tne direction of 

 the Secretary for carrying out the purposes of 

 Section 12 of this Act. 



VOID PARTS. 



Sec. 14. That it is the intent and purpose of 

 this Act that should any part thereof fail because 

 of ambiguity or other reason, such failure shall 

 not be construed as adversely affecting the re- 

 main ig pirts. 



SHORT TITLE. 



Sec. 15. That this Act may be cited as the 

 "Taxation of Forest Products Act, 1921." 



The Snell Bill was introduced in the Senate 

 on Friday, May 20, by Senator Medill McCor- 

 mick. 



Note (The only changes in the McCormick Bill 

 from the Snell Bill are the authorization for ap- 

 propriations of $1,000,000 instead of $3,000,000 In 

 Section 3 and of $10,000,000 instead of $50,000,000 

 in Section 6; together with an additional clause 

 in Section 5 authorizing the Forest Service to 

 co-operate with States, Counties, etc., in the 

 planting of Memorial Highways and Forests.) 



