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Figure 2. — Timber-sale area in a national forest. The younger trees, left when the 

 area was logged 30 years before, will soon be ready for cutting. Good reproduction 

 insures future productivity of the forest. 



States — North Dakota, Utah, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, California, and New 

 Mexico; and 1 in Puerto Rico. Purchases in 8 other areas in Utah, Nevada, 

 and California have been authorized by special acts of Congress. The total 

 approved for purchase at the end of 1943 was approximately 18 % million 

 acres. 



Exchanges 



Privately owned forest land located within national forest boundaries and 

 best suited to public ownership may be acquired through exchange of 

 national forest land or stumpage in the same State of not more than equal 

 value, under the act of March 20, 1922, as amended, and that of March 3, 

 1925. By numerous supplementary acts, this exchange procedure has been 

 extended to many areas outside of but adjacent to national forest boundaries. 



To protect the public interest, careful and detailed examination and 

 appraisal of both private properties and national forest land and resources 

 are made by qualified Forest Service officers, and the resulting reports are 

 reviewed and checked in Washington. As a further safeguard, publicity is 

 given to pending exchanges by newspaper advertisements in the counties 

 where the offered and selected land and/or stumpage is located. 



Up to June 30, 1943, a total of 2,237 exchanges had been made, in which 

 the Government received 3,870,320 acres, valued at $17,234,062, and relin- 

 quished 897,452 acres and some 4^2 billion feet of timber, valued at 

 $11,403,526. 



Donations 



Donations of land valuable for national forest purposes may be accepted 

 by the Secretary of Agriculture on behalf of the United States under the 

 acts of June 7, 1924, and March 3, 1925. 



In the main, such donations are made by : ( 1 ) Owners of forested areas 

 who for sentimental reasons wish to have them fully conserved and safe- 



