Forest Service Appropriations Benefit State

The United States Forest Service will spend $S,'OS9,OOO in California during the period July 1, 1930, to June 30, 1931, according to report of Regional F'orester S. B. Show. This is an increase of $1,357,947 over the expenditures during the past fis'cal year and marks a substantial growth in FJderal -appropriations for the management and protection of the national forests.

The chief item of increase, amounting to $750,000, is in the $1,428,063 appropriation reeeived by the California Region, under the terms of the Colton-Oddie bill passed by the last Congress, for the construction of major roads which form a part of the State and county highway systems within and adjacent to the national forests. This :Idditional money will be spent in the construction and maintenance of 175 miles of roads built under the engineering supervision of the Bureau of Public Roads in cooperation with the State Division of Highways'

IJnder the terms of the Clarke-McNary Act, the Division of Forestry, State Department of National Resources, will receive a $57,000 inCrease and a total appropriatior, of $147,715 for the prevention and suppression of forest and brush fires on State and private lands'

The special fire prevention appropriation made by Congress foi the national forests of Southern California, which - is matched dollar for dollar by local contributions, has been increased $25,000, and now totals $150,000. This money is used for the construction of fire prevention improvements such as roads, trails, and fire breaks'

The California Forest Experiment Station has been given a total appropriation of $85,85O, or an increase of $32.000 over last year, for developing and carrying on experiments in fire reseanch, forestry practice in the redwood region and the study of the relation of brush and forest cover to water supply.

Other lncreases received by the Forest Service for the administration, protection and improvement of the national forests, are: $300,000 for building roads and trails not on the State and county systems, $70,000 for special fire prevention measures and equipment, $55,000 for the construction and maintenance of fire lookout stations, telephone lines and like improvements, and $9,000 for nursery and planting work.

- In addition.to the above expenditures, 39 counties in California will receive a total of $4O9,335, or an increase ot $52,000 over the past year, for schools and roads. This return by the Federal Government is made in lieu of taxes tct the counties under the law requiring that 25 per cent of the receipts from the sale and use of forest resources shall be returned to the State for division among the coun' ties containing national forest acreage.

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