WORK OF THE UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE 15 
RECEIPTS AND THEIR USE 
Receipts from the national forests from timber sales, grazing fees, 
special land uses, water power, and other sources amount to more 
than $4,000,000 each year. Normally, receipts from timber sales form 
the larger part of the total, with receipts from use of forage a close 
second. 
Tt could not be expected, of course, that rugged, relatively inacessi- 
ble mountain lands, such as constitute by far the greater part of the 
national forests, would soon yield a revenue to the Government over 
and above the cost of administration. Many of the forests may be 
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FIGURE 10.—Bear-den tree and the tenant himself. Monongahela National Forest, W. Va. 
expected to help supply the country’s future needs for timber after 
the more accessible lands have been cut over, rather than its present 
needs. Others are chiefly valuable for watershed protection, which, 
though of greatest importance to the people and industries of the 
country, does not yield the Government direct return in dollars and 
cents. Moreover, a great deal of money must be spent for roads, 
trails, bridges, telephone lines, and other improvements before the 
resources of the forests can be used. 
Since Federal property is not taxable, 25 percent of the total net 
receipts of the national forests is turned over each year to the States 
to be apportioned for road and school purposes to the counties in 
which the national forests are located. An additional 10 percent is 
used for road and trail building on the national forests, so that 35 
percent, in all, of the receipts returns directly to benefit the local 
national-forest communities. Also, many of the expenditures by the 
Forest Service for national-forest protection and improvements aid 
in local development. 
