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other products, and the country’s present and future 
need for timber. The research is not limited to prob- 
lems which directly concern the management of the 
national forests. Its object is to promote the best 
use of the forest and range resources of the United 
States, whether in public or private ownership. Three 
special fields of investigation ,that are nation-wide in 
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FIGURE 22.—Bluegrass pastures and woodlands on a 
Virginia farmstead 
scope are represented by the Forest Products Labora- 
tory at Madison, Wis., the forest-taxation inquiry at 
New Haven, Conn., and the forest Survey. 
All lines of forest research head up in Washington, 
D. C., but by far the greater part of the investigative 
work is conducted in regional units that roughly 
correspond to the major forest regions throughout the 
country. In each of these regions it is planned to 
establish a forest experiment Station, where all lines 
of research in that particular region will be centered. 
Eleven of these stations have already been organized. 
In each, so far as the needs of the region require, 
