maintenance. This has more than trebled and for fiscal year 1959, 

 the amount is 10.6 million dollars. Since 1953, there have been con- 

 structed 602 dwellings and related improvements, 769 service build- 

 ings, and 139 lookout structures. 



In 1953, the total receipts from the sale of timber and from the use 

 of the range and other surface resources was 76.0 million dollars. It 

 is anticipated that these receipts for fiscal year 1959 will be about 110 

 million dollars. With these anticipated receipts for 1959, almost 600 

 million dollars will have been received by the Federal Government 

 since the close of 1953. This is almost 60 percent of the first billion 

 dollars of national- forest receipts reached on November 21, 1958 after 

 the national forests were placed under the administration of the Secre- 

 tary of Agriculture in 1905. Twenty-five percent of these revenues 

 were distributed for the benefit of schools and roads in the counties. 



Federal financing of research bearing on national-forest problems 

 in 1953 was 6.2 million dollars. In 1959, it was 16.5 million dollars, 

 including 2.5 million dollars for construction of research facilities. 

 Any precise allocation of the benefits of forestry research to the 

 support of management and development of the national-forest system 

 is difficult. Generally research projects benefit anyone who protects 

 and manages forest resources regardless of landownership. Thus it 

 serves private as well as public forestry. During this period, forestry 

 research has made substantial and significant contributions to the 

 development, management, and protection of the national-forest 

 system. These include, to name only three, (a) development of a new 

 aerial forest fire control method, with the result that in 1958 more 

 than 1.4 million gallons of chemical fire retardant were dropped on 

 320 fires in the national forests with a high degree of success; (b) 

 a new technique for fumigating tree nursery soils was perfected in 

 1957, increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of seedling production ; 

 and (c) a patch-type of cutting for lodgepole pine timber was 

 developed for high, mountainous national-forest areas of the Rocky 

 Mountains which increases late spring water yield by 25 to 30 percent 

 because of its influence on snow accumulation and rate of melt. 



There have been many other major conservation accomplishments in 

 the management of the national-forest system. New or revised policies 

 have been adopted since 1953 in order that the management of the na- 

 tional forests would be more responsive to the needs of the users. As a 

 result of cooperative effort with both the forest and mining industries, 

 authority was enacted in 1955 and procedures developed to provide for 

 the multiple use of the mineral and surface resources. In 1958, 

 "Timber Resources for America's Future,-' the most comprehensive 

 study of the timber resources of the Nation, was published and as a 

 result the timber goals for the national forests have been raised sub- 

 stantially. Changes have been made in national-forest grazing policies 



