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the hiring. Applications for temporary work should not be made 

 to the regional forester's office in San Francisco. 



REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES 



1. Where does the Forest Service obtain funds for managing and 

 protecting the national forests? 



From appropriations authorized annually by Congress. 



2. Are the national forests of the California region self-supporting? 

 No. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1930, the receipts from the 



national forests of the California region totaled $1,637,340, while 

 the operating expenditures were $1,911,501. Moreover, the expend- 

 iture figures given do not include money spent for the construction 

 of roads and trails and for forest-fire and other forms of cooperation, 

 which in the fiscal year 1930 amounted to $2,186,172. The actual 

 difference between receipts and expenditures for the fiscal year 

 mentioned was therefore $2,490,336. 



3. From what resources of the national forests are revenues 

 derived? 



From sales of mature timber, fees for stock grazing on national- 

 forest lands, rentals of land for various purposes — such as summer 

 homes, resorts, pastures, etc., and water power. 



4. What becomes of the money received from the sale and use of 

 national-forest resources? 



All receipts from the national forests are deposited in the United 

 States Treasury. Under Federal law, 25 per cent of these receipts 

 is turned over to the States in which the national forests are located. 

 The State in turn apportions this fund to the counties, each county 

 receiving as its share a proportion of the receipts from the national 

 forest or forests located within the county, based on the acreage of 

 the national-forest land within the county. This fund is used by 

 the county for school and road purposes. 



The Federal law also requires that an additional 10 per cent of 

 all receipts from the national forests be expended by the Forest 

 Service for trails and roads located entirely within the forests in the 

 States from which the receipts are obtained. 



5. How much money has California received from the national 

 forests under the 25 per cent and the 10 per cent funds? 



To June 30, 1930, California had received $4,030,618 from the 25 

 per cent fund, for redistribution to counties containing national for- 

 ests, and, in addition, the Forest Service had allotted under the 10 

 per cent fund, $1,513,061 on roads and trails within these counties — a 

 grand total of $5,543,679. 



6. Why is this money returned by the Forest Service to the State? 

 To compensate the State and counties for the withdrawal of public 



lands within the national forests from private ownership and taxa- 

 tion. 



7. Are there any other benefits received by the State and counties 

 from the national forests? 



