96 MISC. PUBLICATION 290, U. 8S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
drying winds. Through other local effects, trees so grown modify 
their immediate environment and the living conditions for man, 
beast, bird, and vegetation. 
LANDS ACQUISITION FOR STATE FORESTS 
The Fulmer Act of 1935 provided for Federal cooperation with 
States in the purchase of forest lands. Liquidation of Federal finan- — 
cial aid to the States will come from the sale of forest products from 
these lands. These areas will eventually become State-owned forests, 
but title may not be passed unless the State adheres to certain pre- 
scribed forestry practices. | 
The program calls for aid to the States in selecting productive 
lands so located as to serve the maximum public good. It is the 
hope that a system of State forests of somewhere near 30,000,000 
acres will eventually be established that will be highly productive 
of all forest resources, and also that will serve as first-rate demon- 
strations showing the money and other returns that may be expected 
to result from the practice of sound forestry management. 
OTHER COOPERATIVE PROGRAMS 
The Forest Service also cooperates in naval stores conservation, the 
1938 program having been approved by the Secretary of Agriculture 
for operation under the provisions of the Soil Conservation and 
Domestic Allotment Act. Participation by producers and operators 
is voluntary. All field and inspectional work is conducted by the For- 
est Service. Objectives of the program are promotion of economic 
use and conservation of land, prevention of wasteful use and exploita- 
tion of turpentine resources, and extension of forest-fire protection in 
the naval stores region. 
Forest Service officers are also working with the Agricultural Ad- 
justment Administration in examining private western range lands 
to determine carrying capacity. The Forest Service is thus cooper- 
ating with the A. A. A. in the establishment of suitable conservation 
practices for which benefit payments may be made. 
FOREST AND RANGE RESEARCH 
Basic in importance to the administration of the national forests, 
as to all timber and grazing lands in the country are the organized 
fact-finding and interpretive activities that comprise forest and range 
research. These activities, which cover the whole field of forest and 
range use, are classified under a few broad subjects: Forest manage- 
ment and protection, forest influences, utilization of forest products, 
management of livestock on forest ranges, and forest economics and 
taxation. 
All lines of forest research head up in Washington, D. C., but by far 
the greater part of the investigative work is conducted at 12 regional 
forest and range experiment stations and at the Forest Products 
Laboratory, a national institution, at Madison, Wis. The territories 
of the experiment stations roughly correspond to the major forest 
regions of the country. Investigative results are made available for 
use not only on the national forests but also on other Federal, State, 
municipal, and private timberlands. 
