NationalForestry Policy

Stressed by Forest Service

'fhe outstanding eve'nt of the year in national forestry rvas the passage of the Clarke-McNary Forestry Act, declares W. B. Greeley, Chief of the Forest Service, in his annual report to the Secretary of Agriculture.

Chief Forester Greeley in his report lays special emphasis upon the development of a national forestry policy in the United States, a policy that has heretofore been almost entirely lacking as far as the 40J,000,000 acres of privately-owned forest land is concerned. It is from this privately-owned forest land, Chief Forester Greeley says, that probably 80 per cent of the 'nation's forest products must come in the long run.

Besides defining a national forestry policy, the ClarkeMcNary Act provides for cooperation rvith States and individuals in fighting forest firds, for forest planting on farms, for instruction in forestry to farmers, for a study of forest taxation, and for the enlargement of public ownership of forest land through gift, purchase, and reservation of the public domain.

Receipts from the 147 National Forests during the past fiscal year totaled $5,250,000, the report states. This monev was received mostly from the sale of timber, which brought in over $3,000,000, and from the sale of permits to graze livestock, which brought in nearly $2,000,000. Miscellaneous uses such as water power and land rentals accounted for the balance.