WORK OF THE UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE 



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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. 



Figure 19. — Pnlpwood-thinning demonstration in loblolly pine, Virginia. 



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. 



MANAGEMENT AND PROTECTION 



The purpose of research in forest management is to discover and 

 interpret, the facts upon which rest jthe full productive management of 

 forest lands for timber growing. 



Investigations conducted in all the 



