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We need in this problem, as in many other matters, not so 

 much regulation by the state as correlated action and joint effort 

 by the public and private agencies, working toward a common Co-operation 

 puri)Ose. This plan is in successful operation in the West in Preferable to 

 forest fire protection and in the handling of grazing matters. State Reau- 

 WMiile conditions are different in the South, the principle is, I '^^'o/i 

 believe, feasible if the land owners are prepared to enter upon a 

 far-reaching plan of land administration. 



There would be involved first of all a classification of the 

 land and a survey of the resources, both timber and grazing; 

 then a plan of development, administration, finance and control. 



Personally I should like to see a plan worked out for a 

 specified group of holdings, under the direction of a board or 

 committee composed of representatives of the owners and of the 

 public agencies that might be interested, as the county, state Offers Assist- 

 and federal government. If such joint enterprises could be un- unce of For- 

 dertaken it would turn the course of the use of the pine lands ''*' -^^^'"^^ 

 from a progressive destruction of resources to an upbuilding 

 process. If such constructive enterprise should be initiated you 

 may confidently count on the support of the Forest Service. 



