70 BULLETIN 1241, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
In cooperation with private owners it must extend and improve protection 
against fire, insects, and disease. It must solve the question of forest taxation, 
which in its present form helps to discourage efforts by private owners to grow 
their own timber supplies. It must encourage the development of satisfactory 
forms of timber insurance. It must aid in forest-products research into pulp 
woods and pulping processes. To supplement present knowledge, it must, in 
cooperation with the pulp and paper industry, extend and enlarge the research 
of forest experiment stations in methods of reforestation, timber growing, and 
protection. It must also secure fuller data on the adjustment of needs and 
supplies. Although the general information available amply justifies action 
along the lines suggested, much more accurate and detailed data on timber 
supplies, growth, requirements, and available forest lands are essential for 
thoroughly satisfactory plans from the standpoint of either the pulp and paper 
industry or the public. For such data reliance can be placed only upon a timber 
survey, and in making this the public and the industry must cooperate. 
The interest of the industry in planning and providing for itself ample supplies 
of raw materials to meet its own future requirements is still more immediate and 
direct than that of the public and carries corresponding responsibility for the 
solution of the pulp and paper problem. 
The responsibility of the industry extends to cooperation in the lines indicated — 
forest protection, forest-products investigations, research at forest experiment 
stations, and a thoroughgoing timber survey. It includes systematic and wide- 
spread efforts to apply the results of research as rapidly as they become available. 
Further than all of these, the pulp and paper industry should, to safeguard its 
own interest, assume the leadership in timber growing on its own forest lands 
and those upon which it is dependent for pulp-wood supplies. The alternative 
of scrapping pulp and paper plants or diverting them to other and less essential 
products affords no real choice. 
