Public cooperation should encourage private enterprise in 
forestry in every legitimate way, helping it to provide the 
production, employment, and security upon which the wel- 
fare of the people depend. Public service in the field of 
scientific research already has pointed the way to improved 
techniques in forest management and to better ways of 
manufacturing and using forest products. It has made pos- 
sible the saving of millions of dollars. The value of a con-— 
tinuing, thoroughgoing research program can hardly be 
overestimated. 
Timber owners and operators, especially the smaller ones, 
need more technical assistance in forest-management and in 
wood-utilization problems. Government assistance might be 
provided in the establishment of cooperative associations of 
small forest-land owners. Better credit facilities would help 
to meet the needs for long-term loans for forest owners 
striving to build up depleted properties and practice perma- 
nent timber growing. Property taxation in some cases needs 
to be adjusted so as not to impose inequitable burdens on 
owners of growing timber. Government.aid in fire protec- 
tion, and in the control of destructive insects and tree diseases 
needs to be strengthened. 
Such public cooperation would help private owners make 
the transition from destructive methods of cutting to con- 
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