EVEN with adequate cooperation and rea- 
sonable regulation there would still be for- 
est lands submarginal for private ownership 
and management, but none the less impor- 
tant for stream-flow stabilization and soil 
erosion control, that would not be reached. 
There would be others scrambled in a 
hopeless ownership pattern that precludes 
adequate protection and management, and 
still other areas of old-growth timber, 
threatened by liquidation, which hold key 
» a 7. =i 
F-296787, F—381154, F—250493, AND F-386657 
positions and govern the type of manage- 
ment feasible on adjacent areas. 
For these lands, public ownership—com- 
munity, State, or Federal—appears to be the 
only answer: A, Heavily cut forest; B, 
watershed-protection forest; C, immature 
shortleaf pine typical of some tracts acquired 
by the Federal Government to consolidate 
holdings; D, old-growth bottom land hard- 
woods purchased to forestall liquidation 
cutting. 
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