Show I State Activity in F Forestry restry Movement j I Urged ed for 1 Main ain Progress in I I ri Timber ber Growing I b by the mao United Statu Doai of ot J nt State rather r than federal activity In forest fore conservation must be looked to for the tile minim main Po progress reH in timber grown grow ow ing n from now flOW on on W V U B. B Greeley chief of tile the forest foiest service er United States Department of Agriculture told the meeting et nJ of stale tn e foresters assembled at mit Washington ton to confer I on federal co cooPeration co- co operation In forestry The federal forest policy or or a good many y years to td tome Come according to the chief forester or ster was completed complete with the time enactment of the Clar Clarke for COI law luW In 1924 providing prO financial co operation in forest control between the time federal govern got memo ment the time states an private land laud owners own own- ers era and the tIme chief development ele hence hence- tom tIm should be In the forestry own undertakings under under- takings s of or states local institutions n u an 1 I I Individuals J 1 l Fifty million acres acrE'S of ot fore forest t land should be he acquired by the tIme states co comities counties coun- coun un ties lUes and their municipalities in audition addition to tr t present holdings of eleven mil null lion acres teres said Mr Greeley mind and the federal government should add ndel eight 01 or ten million acres to Its present fur for furest est area of ot eIght nine eighty million mUlton acres acm Perhaps the greatest gm single le obstacle to the time rapid spread of ot timber in the time United d States he growing continued Is the time unstable ownership o of or fore forest t land nn and it is Incumbent upon pu public Ue agencies to put greater stability into our forest land situation b by a vigorous extension of public forest ownership not or only l as fiS tin m meeting an urgent urgent problem In land utilization but as offering substantial sub sub- public returns ns in the long run Moreover er the time more demonstration we va can g gt t In ti all aJI parts of ot the country of ot good for forest st practice active and profitable forst for for- est st management the time wl whole Jle t process of more will vilh the reforestation by all aU agencies be he stimulated |