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GOVERNMENT FOREST WORK AT 
jects as the effect of timber depletion on industrial 
and community development, the relation between for- 
estry and agriculture in regions where there are con- 
siderable areas of marginal land, the costs of and re- 
turns from forestry enterprises, methods of forest 
taxation and their results, forest-fire insurance, and 
possible measures for promoting private forestry 
practice. 
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FIGURE 24.—Forest officers of the Great Basin Experiment 
Station mapping quadrat with chartograph, Manti Na- 
tional Forest, Utah 
RANGE RESEARCH 
The objective of range research is to determine, or 
aid in determining, how lands suitable for grazing 
can be utilized to the best advaniage. It concerns 
itself primarily with increasing and maintaining the 
productivity of national-forest ranges, with promoting 
the welfare of a profitable range livestock industry, 
and with coordinating range and other forest uses. 
Under a wide diversity of conditions studies are con- 
ducted along fundamental lines, including the influ- 
