24 Miscellaneous Circular 71, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 



The Forest Service receives an annual appropriation from Congress 

 to carry on its work. The amounts taken in from sales of timber, 

 fees for grazing, and from other sources, go into the Federal Treasury, 

 as do other funds collected by the Government. Forest lands pay 

 no taxes, but a law provides that 25 per cent of the receipts in each 

 State shall be returned to the State and the counties in which the 

 national forests are located in lieu of taxes. As Table 3 shows, in 

 an average year like 1924 the money received through the leasing 



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Fig. 16. — State game preserves in Utah 



and sale of national forest resources is just about sufficient to pay 

 for the direct administration of the forests — the salaries of rangers 

 and other officers, together with the wages of fire fighters and other 

 similar employees and the amount expended for improvements, such 

 as ranger stations, fences, etc., but not the sum returned to Utah in 

 lieu of taxes, nor the large sums spent annually for roads and trails 

 within the national forests of the State. Most of these forest roads 

 connect important communities on opposite sides of mountains occu- 



