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Measuring snakeweed growth in connection with grazing studies. Range investigations 

 are among the major fields of research carried on by several forest and range experiment 

 stations of the Forest Service. 



The problem of bringing about this improvement constitutes a challenge to 

 the profession. Advancement in these phases of forestry has been the ob- 

 jective of several acts of Congress. 



The Federal Government is cooperating in the protection of State and 

 private lands from fire through financial aid to the States under provisions 

 of the Clarke-McNary law of 1924. Forty-three States cooperate in fire 

 protection, in addition to the Territory of Hawaii, and the total area of 

 forest lands covered in 1954 was approximately 374 million acres. This 

 was more than 85 percent of the area in need of protection. The fire- 

 protection projects are administered by or under direction of the State 

 forestry departments, the Forest Service cooperating in development of 

 plans, establishment of standards of procedure, and inspection of the work. 

 Under the terms of the law, the Federal Government limits its expenditures 

 in a given fiscal year to a sum not greater in each State than the funds 

 expended jointly by the State and qualifying private owners. 



The Forest Service is also cooperating under the Clarke-McNary law 

 with 43 States, in addition to Puerto Rico and Hawaii, in the production and 

 distribution of young trees for planting windbreaks, sheiterbelts, and forests. 

 Under this program about 465 million trees were distributed to woodland 

 owners in 1954. 



Additional assistance is offered by the Government under the Clarke- 

 McNary law in the form of information for farm woodland owners on the 



