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ing, and cutting and logging regulations tions of licenses ; fines for violation oi 



to perpetuate the forest in case of lum- the Forest Act and the forest regula- 



bering. tions ; caingins without license stopped 



For the working plan, much informa- inspection of homesteads ; more rigic 

 tion of a political and social nature will examination and requirements for the 

 be collected : Card catalogue of all offi- approval of the same, and the collectior 

 cials and influential men, with remarks ; of stumpage charges on forest products 

 lists of licensees, and all men using the in cooperation with muncipal treasurers 

 forest and on whom dependent ; land and the Bureau of Internal Revenue 

 status work, including location and his- At present the work of collecting 

 tory of all claims ; location of all people stumpage charges is in the hands of the 

 in the forest, including a special study Bureau of Internal Revenue, and is done 

 of the non-christian tribes (Montescos, mainly through municipal treasurers. Il 

 Negritos, etc.), It will be the policy is very difficult for these officials, nol 

 of the Bureau of Forestry to encourage experts in timber and never getting 

 ignorant natives in becoming independ- back into the forest, to properly handle 

 ent farmers, cultivating homesteads of this work. The Bureau of Forestry, 

 their own. These natives should be en- cooperating with the municipal treas- 

 couraged in taking up homesteads on urers, will be able to secure for the 

 good land, much of which is illegally government a much larger revenue 

 held by caciques, and not allowed to go from forest products cut in these twc 

 back into the forest to make caingins in forests than has been heretofore col- 

 poorer soil, where they destroy much lected. 

 valuable timber. 



In connection with the work of or- FUTURE NERDS op THE BURAU 

 ganizmg these two permanent forests, 



the bureau will undertake to establish The Bureau Qf Forest has in it 



communal forests for neighboring bar- sion to . d ^ nec / infor . 



rios and municipalities, on the public . J . . , J . 



land most conveniently located to them, matlon and . a nucleus of ] he . force tc 



from which timber for personal use can start an actlve - efficient administration 



be taken without a stumpage charge, of what should be permanent forest land 



This will check the villagers from going in the islands." 3 What it will need 



a great distance back into the forest to more and more, in addition to trained 



get their timber for personal use, where Filipino foresters, will be increased ap- 



they do much damage to the forest, propriations for carrying on the work. 



Where there is no public forest near the This could be provided for by allowing 



town, the municipality will be encour- sixty per cent or more of the reven ue 



aged to establish one by planting up derived from forest products so ld from 



public grass land and every assistance c forests tQ be used under the di _ 



possible in the work will be given by . , . _ 



{he bureau. Experimental planting work r f ctlon of the Bureau of Forestr y> fo < 



in connection with the different munici- the maintenance and improvement oi 



pal schools will be carried on by the tne forests. 



Bureau of Forestry, cooperating with "In all countries where forestry has 



the Bureau of Education, which will be been practiced for a long period of years, 



a good way to start planting of com- there has been a steady increase oi 



munal forests. the revenue from the forest, and this 



The general administrative work on increase has been directly dependent 



the Bataan and Negros forests will in- upon tne arnount spe nt in the care and 



elude: Granting of licenses to cut tim- protect i on o f these forests. In Prussia 



her and other forest products with reg- jn the nment annuaUy spe n1 

 illations as to where and what shall be 

 taken, in order tp preserve the pro- 



ductivitv of the forest ; fines for viola- 'Circular No. 3, Bureau of Forestry. 



