Public cooperation should encourage private enter- 

 prise in forestry in every legitimate way, helping it to 

 provide the production, employment, and security upon 

 which the welfare 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 prod- 

 ucts. It has made possible the saving of millions of 

 dollars. The value of a continuing, thoroughgoing re- 

 search program can hardly be overestimated. 



More technical advice in forest management and in 

 wood utilization problems should be made available to 

 timber owners and operators. Government assistance 

 should be provided in the establishment of cooperative 

 marketing associations by forest land owners. Better 

 credit facilities should be available to meet the needs for 

 long-term loans for forest owners striving to build up 

 depleted properties and practice permanent timber 

 growing. Property taxation should be adjusted so as 

 not to impose inequitable burdens on owners of growing 

 timber. Government aid in fire protection, and in the 

 control of destructive insects and tree diseases should 

 be strengthened. 



Such public cooperation would help private owners 

 make the transition from destructive methods of cutting 

 to continuous production, and encourage them to go be- 

 yond the minimum requirements set up by public regula- 

 tion and practice the best kind of forest management. 



(3) Public forests. — The productivity of some for- 

 est lands is too low to provide adequate incentive for 

 private owners to attempt to grow timber on them. 

 Other lands lie in such rough or inaccessible country 

 that they have little attraction for the owners after the 

 original timber is cut; and still other lands have been 

 so denuded as to offer no prospect of income for many 

 decades. Many such lands are chronically tax delin- 

 quent. There are also certain areas where acute problems 

 of watershed protection, or need for protection or de- 

 velopment of recreational and scenic values, or other 

 public interests outweigh the interests of a single owner. 



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