through new construction and betterment of existing facilities. The 

 needs include 17 specialized laboratories and related greenhouse and 

 service facilities for the basic research on forest insects and diseases, 

 tree genetics and physiology, forest soils and hydrology, forest fires, 

 and forest products, and for development of new equipment for fire 

 fighting and for harvesting timber ; 5 office-laboratory buildings at 

 regional headquarters of forest and range experiment stations; 25 

 office-laboratories at centers of field research and minor structures, 

 fencing, stream gages, and other research installations that will be 

 required on about 100 experimental forests and ranges. 



Program Benefits 



Under the proposed program, management and utilization of 

 national-forest resources will keep pace with population growth and 

 national economic development and needs. 



Many of the benefits from the program for the short-term period 

 will carry over or will be delayed until after the end of the period. 

 Investments in such measures as roadbuilding, tree planting, range 

 reseeding, water conservation, research, recreation, and other improve- 

 ments proposed in the initial period are geared not only to short-term 

 needs, but also to the longer range objectives of meeting expected 

 demands on the national forests during the remainder of the century. 



Benefits include direct financial revenues, secondary benefits, and 

 intangible values. 



Direct financial revenues from the national-forest system will rise 

 to about 210 million dollars annually by the time the short-term con- 

 servation program is completed, or double current receipts. Over 90 

 percent of such revenues will continue to come from the sale of stand- 

 ing timber. By the year 2000 national-forest timber sales should reach 

 21 billion board feet of sawtimber worth 350 million dollars at 1958 

 prices. 



Payments from national-forest revenues for county schools and 

 roads will increase correspondingly. These increased payments to 

 counties, coupled with increased national-forest expenditures for roads 

 and fire control, will exceed the taxes that the national-forest system 

 would pay, if subject to local taxation, by an even greater margin at 

 the end of the initial period than at the present time. 



The capital value of the timber, forage, and lands of the national- 

 forest system will have increased by about a billion dollars as a result 

 of the short-term conservation program. 



In addition to direct financial income to the United States as a result 

 of the national- forest conservation program, there will be both sub- 

 stantial secondary benefits and very real intangible benefits. 



Secondary benefits include such things as numbers of people em- 

 ployed in the harvesting of national-forest timber and other products 

 and the value added to those products by manufacture, distribution, 

 and marketing. 



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