WITH UNCnS SAlf.^S IIATURALISTS RELEASE: Friday. March 27, 1931 . 



ANITO'JK'CEMEM' ! And now for our visit with Uncle Sam's Naturalists. Every 

 other v;eek our Wilds I/an goes to the specialists of the United States 

 Dcpr^j'tment of Agriculture to check up with them on some of the things ho 



finds in the woods hut today he is just going to take us to the edge of 



the woods, as it were He is going to tell us what cities, and towns, 



and counties are doing in the way of establishing community forests 



Well, ITildsmoji? 



Yes, more and more of our cities, and towns and counties oxe going 

 in for forests. 



Tliat is not just a matter of fijcing thin^so we can still look at 

 the "'oods and still enjoy the privileges of roaming through the forests 

 when 've have a mind to. Of course, the recreation feature is one of the 

 big reasons for many of these woods. Others have been established as a 

 means of protecting the watershed. And some combine the beauties of l^at- 

 ure and "atershed protection with the more tangible values of timber grow- 

 ing. In f:.ct, I'.r, C. E. Randall, of the public relations branch of the 

 United States Forest Service, saj'-s there is no reason why cominunity for- 

 ests should not be a source of income to their collective ov;ners as are 

 the co-^.u-onity forests of Europe. 



You, knoY/, it is just in recent years we have gone in for city for- 

 ests in a bi;^ ^^-y* There are /.ow .r.ore than three-quarters of a million 

 acres of timber land classified as municioal forests, in this country, 



Tlie movement has grown amazingly in recent years. In Massachusetts, 

 there are 84 communities with municipal forests. New Hampshire has more 

 than sixty town forests. Vermont has 24, 



ITe'.- York State has -v.ore than 200,000 acres in municipal forests. 

 New Jersey has 35,000 acres. I.iaryland cities have also bought forest 

 land, 



Ohio has five comm-ijinit ies with local forests, and Colorado has seven 

 cities vith forests. Oregon cities have forests. 



Te have -orobably left ot;t a n-:mber of the forests but that's 



enou^i ':o show how wide-spread the movement is becoming. 



