MILLION ACRES 
Million 
dollars 
MILLION DOLLARS 
I94; 7-22 2119:60 
/9/1-15, calendar; all 
others fiscal 
1911 ISI5 1920 1925 
LAND UNDER ORGANIZED PROTECTION 
[-] State and private funds 
WEBB Federal funds 
W 
1930 1935 1940 1945 1947 
Ficurr 24.—Area protected and expenditures, cooperative fire protection on private and State forest lands, 1911-47. 
and California revested lands and national-park 
lands—now receiving reasonably adequate protec- 
tion—should be to maintain this good record and 
to intensify protection where needed for particu- 
larly critical areas. Both standards and accomplish- 
ments need to be raised substantially for the other 
four-fifths of these Federal forest lands. 
Fire Protection on Private and 
State Lands 
Organized fire protection on State and private 
forests got its first substantial impetus in 1911 
through Federal support authorized by the Weeks 
Law. ‘This Federal aid, restricted to forest water- 
sheds of navigable streams, was broadened by the 
Clarke-McNary law in 1924 to apply to all timber- 
lands as well as to critical nonforested watershed 
lands. ‘These acts were milestones in cooperative 
fire control. 
The area under protection increased steadily 
from 61 million acres in 1911 to 328 million acres 
in 1947 (fig. 24). Annual expenditures have risen 
from a quarter million dollars to more than 22 
million dollars in 1947, when they amounted to 6.7 
cents per acre protected. 
Federal appropriations for cooperative protec- 
tion, consistently less than State and private ex- 
82 Miscellaneous Publication 668, U. 8. Department of Agriculture 
