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A road and trail system to provide for optimum production of products and services. 



Lands in this last category are situated largely in the moutainous 

 portions of the Eastern States. 



The long-range objective is to bring about consolidation of owner- 

 ship through use of land exchange authority and through purchase 

 on a moderate scale of inholdings which comprise key tracts for rec- 

 ognized National Forest programs such as recreation development, or 

 which are a source of damage to lands in National Forests and Na- 

 tional Grasslands. In a lower priority for purchase, but also consti- 

 tuting an integral part of the long-range purchase objective, are in- 

 holdings that are in need of rehabilitation and for which there is little 

 prospect that the required capital will be invested as a result of any 

 other programs of land management and land rehabilitation. 



The long-range objective is to acquire by exchange or purchase 

 about 720,000 acres in key tracts needed to facilitate public recreation 

 use of National Forest land. Inholdings that should be similarly 

 acquired as part of the long-range program for the other indicated 

 purposes, including land rehabilitation and the bringing of land 

 management to suitable forest land which otherwise will remain 

 unmanaged, total about 7,000,000 acres, primarily in the East. 



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