and private lands. Accomplishment of these ownership adjustments 

 will contribute much toward meeting resource demands by the year 

 2000 and will be largely accomplished by that time. 



In the initial period, national-forest boundary and ownership 

 classification studies will be completed for all national-forest lands 

 as the basis for landownership adjustment. Such adjustments will 

 be brought about mainly by exchanging on a land-for-land basis ap- 

 proximately 1.4 million acres of scattered or checkerboard national- 

 forest parcels for other lands needed to consolidate the national-forest 

 land pattern. This will (a) enable national-forest boundaries to be 

 modified to exclude about 11 million acres of private and State land 

 from within national-forest boundaries ; and (b) materially reduce the 

 checkerboard pattern of ownership. Special attention will be given 

 to completion of consolidation of national-forest ownership in the 

 Boundary Waters Canoe Area and in certain key watersheds of the 

 Cache National Forest in Utah. In addition, about 217,000 acres of 

 land utilization project lands will be exchanged in the initial period 

 to promote more effective management of such projects. Thereafter 

 there will be a continuing program in the national forests and related 

 areas to adjust ownership problems and further consolidate these 

 public properties. 



There must also be accomplished in the short-term period: (a) 

 Development of an improved and more adequate land status record 

 system with provision for continuous maintenance; and (b) establish- 

 ment and marking of public property corners and the surveying and 

 posting of over 100,000 miles of property lines between national- 

 forest and other lands which now are inadequately located and marked. 



The uses of national-forest lands for many special purposes, includ- 

 ing the extraction of mineral resources, will continue to increase at a 

 rapid rate. The supervision of these uses will need to keep pace in 

 order that such uses can be properly correlated into multiple-use 

 management of the national-forest system, and to prevent unauthor- 

 ized use. The program for the determination of surface rights which 

 has been under way since the approval of the Act of July 23, 1955, 

 will be completed. 



Administrative Structures and Equipment 



To facilitate the resource management and development work, 

 construction and maintenance of administrative and fire control 

 improvements will need to be provided at an increased rate in the short- 

 term period. This will consist of completing the present backlog of 

 housing needs for field officers and of administrative and fire improve- 

 ments, and the construction of additional housing and improvements. 

 New construction needs include 2,730 dwellings and related improve- 

 ments, 2,710 service buildings, and 530 lookout structures. Completion 



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