METHODS OF FOREST POLICY. 27 1 



In Austria a limited right to expropriate exists 

 at the instance of the owner who cannot or does 

 not desire to submit to regulations. 



We may now summarize briefly the results of 

 this discussion. 



A rational forest policy requires a distinction 

 into supply forests and protection forests. 



The former may be largely left to the free 

 exercise of private enterprise, the state affording 

 only the general protection accorded all property, 

 and also the more specific protection which the 

 pecuharities of forest property demand. 



In addition, the educational functions of govern- 

 ment may be called into play by giving opportu- 

 nity to acquire the needed technical knowledge, 

 and such other ameliorative action may be resorted 

 to as will assist and make possible a conservative 

 management of forest property. This action is of 

 more import in the forest industry than in other 

 industries, because of its peculiarities, as pointed 

 out. In certain given cases, temporary exemption 

 from taxation, supplies of plant material, or better, 

 financial assistance, may prove beneficial when 

 the low rate of interest which the state commands 

 will benefit the forest owner and enable him to 

 reforest waste places, while tariff legislation, as 

 far as it is to protect not exploitation, but to make 

 possible a conservative forest management, may 

 become necessary. Ownership of portions of the 

 forest resource by the state, either as a fiscal 



