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Show FOREST SURVEY TO BE TAKEN OGDEN, Nov. 14 UU! Green-uniformed Green-uniformed forest rangers intend to make the life of those who dwell within their vast primitive areas more liveable. A survey will be launched in the near future to find means and ways of raising standards of living liv-ing of those who are allowed to live within national forests, it was intimated here during a meeting of forest service officials from all parts of the country. The move of sociological nature will be undertaken by the forest service as part of its new role protection of human resources as well as those of nature. The survey will be designed to . determine three points, according accord-ing to Assistant Forester C. E. Rachford, who outlined the work in a paper read before the forest servioe officials. They are: 1. How the living standard of people living within the boundaries boundar-ies of areas set aside by the federal fed-eral government as "natural resource re-source saving accounts" may be raised. 2. The best means to correlate efforts of the forest service and state land planning boards to allow the stockmen to derive the greatest benefit from use of ' forest for-est area grazing lands. 3. Formulate a grazing policy that will protect the land but also allow the permanent residents of the regions to derive the greatest benefit without harm to the land. In a measure, plans of the for-(st for-(st service to raise the standard of human living within the forest regions is a part of the federal government's sustenance plan as a measure of unemployment re-, lief. Small scale application of the plan in Eastern forest sections have shown that 500 acres of land will provide a decent living for one man and his family. It is believed only"' a slightly larger acreage in the west, where the soil is less productive, would be necessary to provide an ample living. "By tradition," said Forester S. B. Snow in discussing the nlan, "the forest service has always been for the greatest good to th greatest number. It is attempting attempt-ing to determine how the public's resources should be used for the public's good." |