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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-eight States cooperate in fire 
protection, and the total area of forest lands covered in 1960 was approxi- 
mately 402 million acres. This was more than 92 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 co- 
operating in development of plans, establishment of standards of procedure, 
and inspection of the work. Under the terms of the law, the Federal Gov- 
ernment 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 48 States, in addition to Puerto Rico, in the production and distribu- 
tion of young trees for planting windbreaks, shelterbelts, and forests. Under 
this program about 845 million trees were distributed to woodland owners 
in 1960. 
Additional assistance is offered by the Government under the Clarke- 
McNary law in the form of information for farm woodland owners on the 
