4 CIR. 211, U. S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE 
$16,500,000, including $100,000 for the suppression of 
fires on the national forests, $1,700,000 for cooperative 
fire protection, $93,000 for cooperative distribution of 
forest planting stock, and $2,000,000 for the purchase 
of additional forest lands. The total of $16,500,000 
includes $1,500,000 for strictly protection roads and 
trails on the national forests. It does not include 
appropriations for the construction and maintenance 
of other roads and trails, some of which are pri- 
marily valuable for fire-control purposes. In addi- 
tion to the foregoing regular appropriations Congress 
appropriates annually the amount expended during 
the fiscal year for fire Suppression on the national 
forests. For the 10-year period 1921 to 1930 the 
average yearly expenditure for this purpose has been 
$1,328,885. . 
To-day the forest work of the Government is mainly 
centered in the Forest Service, but the Government 
also does other forest work. The Department of the 
Interior, through its Office of Indian Affairs and its 
National Park Service, administers the forests on the 
Indian reservations and the national parks. The 
Office of Forest Pathology of the Bureau of Plant 
Industry, in the Department of Agriculture, studies 
the diseases of trees, and the branch of insect investi- 
gations in the Bureau of Entomology of the same 
department seeks means for controlling the insect 
enemies of forests. 
CREATION OF NATIONAL FORESTS FROM 
PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE WEST 
Less than 40 years ago the forests on the public 
domain seemed in a fair way to be destroyed eventu- 
ally by fire and reckless cutting. Nothing was being 
done to protect them, or even to use them in the right 
way. They were simply left to burn, or else to pass 
by means of one or another of the land laws into the 
hands of private owners whose interest in most cases 
impelled them to take from the land what they could 
get easily and move on. 
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