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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 FOE 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 

 1937 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. 



