DEPARTMENT OF \ 
AGRICULTURE 
FOREST gSERVICE 
National-Forest Problems 
So MUCH for the two-thirds of the Nation’s 
forest land in private ownership. That 
other one-third—mainly the national for- 
ests—represents the first large-scale trial in 
the United States of public ownership and 
administration of a great natural resource. 
While it has been sufficiently successful to 
have received general public approbation, 
great unfulfilled opportunities for public 
service lie ahead. 
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