Show annual report re ort made by US UN forest service forest service chief richard E mcardle haa has mad med his hij annual report to of agriculture ri ezra taft benson it was announced by ailt regional glorial forester C J olson today pointing out that aih the al at forests we are becom becoming liw increasingly crea singly valuable properties liea subject to over greater use chief cardle ald staid tarot the th fo 0 service will contina coniti nue to rv the american merican Ai people in conservation and chat that the question af management will always a be decided tamn the th 1 tnt of the greatest good of a the greatest number in the 11 long ruri the report sald tudd that national forest activities in the past year indred a cut of billion board feet of timber grazing grazine of about 1 million cattle and 3 million sheep under permits 33 ni dIllion visits including 0 9 million visits from hunters land ond fisher suppressing forest unas fires plait ing acres of forest land re beeding qc res of range land building mila mil a of roads end and miles cd existing roads and alls the mra forest service adminis bets million acme acree of forest and landis in national forests lit TA cooper ates with states and private owners in fire lon tree Plain lung nind md r bonart manue mont merit and docs does forest and watershed research in regional sta tlona and nd in the ach forest products laboratory ut at madison cash receipts from nation a I 1 forest foriest resources during the fis cal year 1053 zaihi ia an all time high of about 76 million dollars exi ex eding opera ti n g and capital by nearly 12 million dollar dollars s it explained ithak dundur a n carrity Can RiTy 8 alomal sj 1 art act 25 pendent of ilic ule gross notional national receipts are paid enath owr by tic the unit ed states v to we states state for distribution to counties CC con n sil foredt landi lands to school and road funds were for ill fislid year 1953 Dewri bing the importance of the tile brazing industry to the tile west the report said quid that 1 61 I million aaros of af Natio national aal forest fore st rim geland igeland provide ar ui important part of he the range for affe figo for livestock and form a vi tal tul link in itle the vew round opera tlona tiong of he the ranchers several in ill gril praying zing policies made m ade d urine during uie the year ore described li bi mr mcardle one change encourages per mittens to make morr ramae range im ini prove it provider that when the grazing capacity of the range is Ino increased reused by privately financed att making the in vestments are riven given cidred os as ince in ce that the bent benefits fits will accrue to them other alone in administration also now in ill cay effect vt ore err to aid livestock producers to safeguard uw uke firl tereAs of all other nation a forest users and to continue the improvement of ranges and the foist service alief explained x that natA national onal forest also embrace had waters tx of anor for 11 used d for irrigation hydroelectric power pa domestic d nesum purposes in the 11 western states ajoue afif ty ft three at d the total st alow is yielded from ni odonal forest w watersheds they an major sources for about 1800 cities and towns hydroelectric dro electric plants and supply the bulk of wiste western wistem m a im gation water ift re l tinn programs to I 1 improve pama administration and effect further involved consolidation of 14 national nid 2 regional F forest r t and range experiment stations forest service participation in n up streams flood d control surveys mid und has al also been reorganized and consolidated d cooperative r research earch with state slate agricultural experiment stations forestry schools and forest has been strong ened mr mcardle tod secretary Secre fary benson hemon that to get a dS ollars worth of value for or every dollar spent has been the traditional objective of the forest service serville ever since its earliest days th the e effort to find more efficient c and moire more economical ways of doin doina things has continued coir or nearly half a centt try |