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Show SAVE THE FORESTS Much can be accomplished, Bays a recently issued, comprehensive Government Gov-ernment report, by public and private pri-vate co-operation in fire protection and In securing methodB of taxation better adapted to timberlands; and, to insure the re-growth of'logged-off forests, reasonable public regulation of the handling of private landB will unquestionably find a place in working work-ing out the problems. Finally, the Forest Service disagrees disa-grees radically with the idea now mooted in many quarters that forest conservation should be sought through permitting industrial combinations com-binations for the regulation of lumber lum-ber production or control of lumber prices. It regards such developments develop-ments as involving dangers to the public interests through restraint of trade so seriouB as to offset any possible pos-sible advantages to the public from such forms of conservation as they might foster. The service believes-in believes-in fact, that such measures as Joint control of lumber output by agreement agree-ment would be ineffective in holding hold-ing back the pressure to cut timber and in overcoming the other weaknesses weak-nesses which cause overproduction. |